Taking a date to a comedy club is always a risky move. You could get stuck sitting in front, where the comic can call you out and trap you in some twisted form of couples therapy, and your only food options are usually chicken fingers and mozzarella sticks. At this East Village Latin vegan restaurant, there’s a full-on comedy club in the back called St. Marks Comedy Club, where you can order platanos maduro supreme and plant-based crispy chicharron to stuff in your mouth when the comic asks you if you’re together together.

Fried chicken is community. We asked five photographers to document the many ways the dish brings people together. Pizza is sold by the slice. Hamburgers are wrapped up one at a time. Tacos arrive in pairs or trios, twirled in foil or arranged like overlapping petals on paper plates. But among America’s most coveted foods, fried chicken is different.

The van has recently been given permission to operate at a car park in the New Forest, and has proved popular. Good news for the ice cream van – but other sellers think the easy-access ices are stopping people venturing into the high street of Lyndhurst after going for a walk. ‘Maybe the new van is stopping customers visiting and spending money in shops,’ local councillor Hilary Brand, 48, said.

Thousands of bees were the topic of conversation in New York City this past weekend. The New York Police Department’s bee unit, known as NYPD Bees on Twitter, was called to a Times Square restaurant on Sunday, June 26 when 2,000 bees settled near a seating area, according to a tweet from NYPD News. The bees will “be relocated to an area where their pollinating skills will be put to good use,” the department said.

Taco Bell is testing a new menu item with a beloved snack food. Taco Bell is testing a new menu item with a beloved snack food. The fast-food chain hopes the creation can replicate the success of its Doritos shells. The experiment: A massive Cheez-It, which is 16 times the standard size, serves as the base for Taco Bell's new "Big Cheez-It Tostada."

STAMFORD — Celebrity chefs Todd English and Aaron May on Tuesday night gave spectators a taste of the kind of demonstrations they will give at the Hey Stamford! Food Festival in August. But before watching the two cook, attendees mingled near the area where English Hospitality Group — the chef’s joint venture with entrepreneur Keith Burkard — is expected to open an 80,000-square-foot food hall and art exhibition by 2024.