But on Sunday, August 20, the same day San Francisco restaurant Automat announced its impending closure, Smith took to social media to post something other than photos of gorgeous desserts and dinners ...

Former Lazy Bear sous chef Matt Kirk’s much-anticipated Automat all-day cafe swung open its doors on the down low today, welcoming diners for a “neighborhood sneak preview.” The restaurant, which is ...

What is it with Germans re-enforcing their own stereotypes? The country known for efficiency and automation, birthplace of the automat, has now debuted a new kind of mechanical restaurant that uses a ...

Jewish comedy legends Mel Brooks and the late Carl Reiner, as well as other well-known personalities, reminisce about a slice of American history in the documentary “The Automat,” opening in South ...

Exactly 106 years ago, Frank Hardart and Joseph Horn opened the first Automat restaurant in the United States, at 818 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. It had no tables, no waiters and only a single ...

Automat Kitchen in Jersey City, New Jersey, is trying to revive the automat. Its restaurant has no waiting staff and it instead serves all its food through lockers. You can order in advance online, or ...

A reader recently asked if Indianapolis ever had an automat restaurant, like those that were so popular in New York City. It turns out we did — but ever so briefly. The automat craze began in 1902, ...

With as many as half of New York City’s nearly 24,000 restaurants and bars potentially being forced to close permanently within a year due to COVID-19-related financial problems, the notion of opening ...

New York City food-world star Stratis Morfogen came to Storrs on Tuesday to oversee the opening of Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, an automat restaurant where almost everything on the menu — burgers, ...

It took Joe Scutellaro 15 years, but come Wednesday, he is set to open Automat Kitchen in Jersey City, a high-tech reboot of the automat, a century-plus-old restaurant concept where patrons could get ...

In this day and age, a contactless experience is key. That's the whole point of a brand new automat in Jersey City that recently opened at the end of January. Automat Kitchen, at 525 Washington Blvd., ...