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Eater
20 hours ago
- Automotive
- Eater
The Full Tesla Diner Menu, Revealed
In advance of its opening at 4:20 p.m. today, July 21, Eater LA got a hold of the full menu at Elon Musk's Los Angeles Tesla diner. As expected, the retro-futuristic diner is set to serve run-of-the-mill diner classics, like hamburgers and hot dogs, alongside all-day breakfast. According to Bill Chait, lead operator and longtime LA restaurateur, Musk said that everything on the menu has to be 'epic,' or it doesn't make the cut. What he considers an 'epic' Greek yogurt parfait is yet to be seen. The menu kicks off with a burger and sandwich section comprised of a Tesla Burger, hot dog, Diner Club, tuna melt, fried chicken and waffles (which is not a sandwich), and grilled cheese. All-day breakfast options include an egg sandwich, avocado toast, a Greek yogurt parfait, breakfast tacos, biscuits and gravy, and a house-made cinnamon roll. Sides like fries, hash brown bites, a wagyu beef chili cup, a buttermilk waffle, a market salad, and of course, 'epic' bacon can be added on. A kids menu, desserts, coffee, tea, and sodas are also available. A note on the bottom of the menu says that the majority of ingredients used at the diner are 'responsibly sourced' and 'sustainable local products' from within the range of a full charge of a Tesla. It does not indicate which Tesla's range is used as reference, as distances vary vastly between models. The kitchen is being led by Eric Greenspan, previously of the Foundry, Greenspan's Grilled Cheese, and numerous other restaurants. He is also the founder of New School American Cheese. Ordering at the new Tesla diner will go live at 4:20 p.m. to coincide with the opening. Tesla drivers will be able to order from their cars for pick-up or car delivery through the in-car app. Once they enter within 15 minutes of the restaurant, the diner's geofence will be triggered, and a notification will be sent to the driver and the cooks to begin preparing the order. Ordering will also be available on-site, and the interior is rumored to include humanoid robots serving popcorn. Additional reporting by Matthew Kang. Tesla diner. Matthew Kang Tesla menu. Eater LA All your essential food and restaurant intel delivered to you Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Eater
21 hours ago
- Automotive
- Eater
The Tesla Diner Will Track When Guests Are Nearby to Prepare Their Orders
Elon Musk's Los Angeles Tesla diner, which opens its doors at 4:20 p.m. (get it?) today, is gearing up to debut a new ordering technology that will track when Tesla drivers enter a certain radius of the restaurant. Instead of scheduling a pickup time for food, drivers will be able to order in advance from their car at any time, and the diner will automatically detect when they are nearby. Crossing the 'geofence' — a 15 to 20-minute driving radius around the restaurant, or approximately half a mile — will trigger a notification for the driver to acknowledge that their order will commence. Once the geofence is crossed, cooks will begin preparing the order, theoretically ensuring that the food is ready once the customer is on-site. The order will default to pick-up, but diners can also opt for car delivery. The ordering system will go online at the same time as the restaurant's 4:20 p.m. opening on Monday, July 21. According to Bill Chait, the lead operator and longtime LA restaurateur behind Tesse, Tartine, and Republique, the ordering system was completed just a few days ago and is a primary feature meant to showcase Tesla's technology. Guests will be able to place their order up to 24 hours in advance, and the system will hold the order in the queue until the geofence is triggered. On-site ordering from robots will also be available, and the interface inside the restaurant will resemble the one inside Tesla vehicles. The New York Times reports that ordering integration has been in progress in the on-board Tesla application for months. In January 2025, Tesla update tracker account Tesla App Updates spotted new references in the application under 'Show_Diner' that seemed to reference the system that will be unveiled with the Los Angeles restaurant. The location tracking integration at the Tesla diner poses questions about data privacy for drivers. It's not clear yet how much location information will be shared with the restaurant, how detailed the user information will be, or how that information will be stored. Eater LA has reached out for further information. Additional reporting by Matthew Kang. Eater LA All your essential food and restaurant intel delivered to you Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Vox
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Vox
The steamy, subversive rise of the summer novel
is the host of Explain It to Me, your hotline for all your unanswered questions. She joined Vox in 2022 as a senior producer and then as host of The Weeds, Vox's policy podcast. As a kid, one of the highlights of my summer vacation was sitting underneath a tree in my grandmother's backyard and getting lost in a book. I don't get a three-month summer break anymore, but tucking away with a juicy novel when it's hot outside is a ritual I still return to. So what makes for a good summer read and how did this practice even emerge in the first place? That's what we set out to find out on this week's episode of Explain It to Me, Vox's weekly call-in podcast. Next Page Book recommendations — both old and new — that are worth your time, from senior correspondent and critic Constance Grady. Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. To find the answer we spoke with Donna Harrington-Lueker, author of Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading. Summer reading is a practice she knows well. 'As a teenager, let's just say I was a bit bookish,' she says. 'That meant that when my family went for its one-week vacation a year — which was a big treat — they were on the beach and I was in some kind of a bunk bed with Moby Dick or Siddhartha.' Below is an excerpt of our conversation, edited for length and clarity. You can listen to the full episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get podcasts. If you'd like to submit a question, send an email to askvox@ or call 1-800-618-8545. How did this idea of summer reading even start? Have we always grabbed books when it's hot out? No, not really. My research focused on the 19th century, and I started looking at newspaper articles, advertisements from book publishers, and the like. And I divided it into two periods: before the Civil War and after the Civil War. Before the Civil War, summer reading was constructed as a masculine practice. The idea was that men would get away from the heat and the pressures of their lives, and they should read something cool. So the essays of Charles Lamb; poetry was mentioned often as well. That all changes after the Civil War, when there's an increase in travel and tourism. The performance of summer leisure becomes an aspiration for a growing middle class, so you have many, many more people engaging in this practice. You have an increase in railroads as well. So you've got an easy way for people to get from point A to point B, and hotels begin to spring up. And as a result of that, publishers start really promoting summer reading. It takes a very specific form, and increasingly it becomes something that women do. It becomes a rather gendered space. Can you talk about that idea of performing leisure a little bit? I think that's really interesting. Publishers would advertise a variety of things as summer reading, but one of the central things was what I call the summer novel. It would be a novel that would be set in Saratoga Springs or Newport or Cape May, at a summer resort. Regardless of how wealthy or not people were, they always seemed to stay there for an entire summer as opposed to a week or a weekend. It would involve a courtship and over the course of the novel, two young people would meet, they would resolve their differences, they would visit various places, and at the end they would be married. By reading these, you'd get an idea of what these resorts were about, and you'd get an idea of how you performed leisure, what you did once you got there, and what the expectations were. So they were serving that purpose as well. There's also a good bit of fashion, so for the young woman, you'd get an idea of how you're supposed to dress. That's so interesting. So it sounds like it's serving the purpose of a mixture of a Hallmark movie with your romance but the drama and intrigue of White Lotus. Definitely the Hallmark characteristic of it. Absolutely. Were these books purely escapist, or did they get at larger themes too? One of the things that I found interesting was that yes, they are escapist in the sense of allowing you to experience another lifestyle, but they were very, very much kind of a liminal space, a space of betwixt in between. For young women especially, it's doing the cultural work of asking, 'What does it look like to have more freedoms as a young woman?' Because there was markedly more freedom — or at least as these books constructed it — during the summer and at summer resorts. You have women hiking and women going out on boats on their own and being unchaperoned, opening up vistas of freedom. Now, admittedly, at the end of all these, order is reasserted. People go back to their normal lives. Marriage as the ultimate institution of tradition gets reasserted. But for the space of the novel there are more freedoms. You have women hiking and women going out on boats on their own and being unchaperoned, opening up vistas of freedom. The novels weren't spaces that were necessarily completely out of touch either. There would be references to a very violent Pullman strike that appeared in one of the summer novels. In the preface to one about Saratoga Springs, there's questions about American imperialism. There's questions about treatment of Native Americans. And so when you take the book as a whole, it's nation-building in a way as well, and it's questioning that in some of them. What was the reaction to the rise of summer reading at the time? Was everyone just ecstatic that people were reading? The publishing industry had a very serious marketing challenge on its hands. Post-Civil War especially, you have rising literacy rates – especially among young women – but you have a very solid and profound discourse that says novel reading is evil, that it is dangerous, especially for young women. The fear was that it would be sexually arousing, that the morals would be questionable. And so you get a lot of criticism, especially among clerics and also a real fear of French novels. They were considered the most problematic. Do we still have a lot of these summer reading conventions in book publishing?
Vox
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vox
There's a bigger story behind Colbert's cancellation
is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. On Thursday, CBS announced that it was going to cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert after Colbert's contract ends in May 2026. The news comes at a politically fraught moment for CBS and its parent company, Paramount Global. It's also the capper on the long arc of late-night political comedy, a genre Colbert was instrumental in building and which now, finally, appears to be on its last legs. In a statement, CBS said its decision to end The Late Show — which began with David Letterman as host in 1993 — was 'purely financial.' 'We are proud that Stephen called CBS home,' the CBS statement said. 'This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show's performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount.' Vox Culture Culture reflects society. Get our best explainers on everything from money to entertainment to what everyone is talking about online. Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. That last line, that The Late Show's cancellation has nothing to do with 'other matters happening at Paramount,' seems directly aimed at tamping down speculation about CBS and Paramount Global's political motivations for cancelling a decades-long fixture of network television. Paramount Global is currently attempting to merge with Skydance Media, and company leadership has been acting as though they are concerned that President Donald Trump might try to block the merger. Earlier this month, CBS and 60 minutes announced a $16 million settlement in its lawsuit with Trump over the editing of a segment about former Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — an extraordinary concession for a media company in a case that experts agree CBS would have likely won in court. The longtime executive producer of 60 Minutes also resigned earlier this year, citing threats to his journalistic independence. Days before the cancellation, Colbert said on his show, 'I am offended' by the settlement. 'I don't know if anything — anything — will repair my trust in this company. But, just taking a stab at it, I'd say $16 million would help,' he quipped. The payout, he added, was a 'big fat bribe.' Colbert's ousting feels symbolic, not just of CBS's apparent decision to bow down to Trump, but of the end of late-night political comedy as a genre. Two days later, reports say, CBS told Colbert they were canceling his show. The network's stated reason for canceling the show has the sheen of believability. It's true that the late-night ecosystem is struggling. Still, Colbert's show has consistently led the ratings for its time slot. CBS and Paramount Global, The Atlantic contended on Thursday, no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt. On Truth Social, Trump — a frequent target of Colbert's jokes — is celebrating. 'I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,' Trump posted Friday morning. 'His talent was even less than his ratings.' Colbert's ousting feels symbolic, not just of CBS's apparent decision to bow down to Trump, but of the end of late-night political comedy as a genre. Sure, John Oliver's Last Week Tonight continues gamely on HBO, but the kind of late-night show that felt urgent and necessary 20 years ago — the stalwart outraged host cracking wise about the foibles of the corrupt federal government and the credulous media ecosystem that enabled it — has been fading for a long time. Now, its moment is coming to a close. Jon Stewart and the rise of political comedy The late-night political comedy show as we know it was developed and perfected by The Daily Show under Jon Stewart over the course of the 2000 presidential election. As the question of whether Al Gore or George W. Bush had won the electoral college wended its way through the Supreme Court, The Daily Show took on a central role: Stewart and his colleagues, including Colbert, were the TV personalities best equipped to talk about how fundamentally weird and confusing the whole thing was. After Bush emerged victorious, The Daily Show became even more crucial. Their skill set was uniquely suited to the Bush years. While the administration took on a pious pose of compassionate conservatism, it was lying to the American people and embroiling the country in an endless foreign war. Stewart and his cohorts knew how to call Bush out on their hypocrisy and be funny about it, too. They were young and edgy, making one of the most exciting shows on television. It felt as if they were telling the truth in a time when no one else was. Stewart always insisted that he wasn't a real journalist and The Daily Show wasn't a real news show. Nonetheless, a 2007 poll from the Pew Research Center found Stewart tied for fourth place in a list of America's most trusted journalists, along with Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, and Anderson Cooper. For lots of liberals, especially young ones, Stewart absolutely was a journalist, and so were the comedians he elevated. In 2005, Colbert developed his own Daily Show spin-off, The Colbert Report. Even more biting than The Daily Show, The Colbert Report saw the host playing a parodic version of Bill O'Reilly, then the biggest star on Fox News. Like O'Reilly, Colbert's character was pompous and swaggering, lapping up his audience's applause and pontificating on 'truthiness' and the American dream. In 2006, he headlined the White House Correspondent's Dinner in character and ripped into Bush directly to his face, in a moment that Vanity Fair would say turned Colbert into a 'folk hero for the left.' With The Colbert Report an accepted institution, Colbert and Stewart developed a double act. They held a 2010 Rally to Restore Fear and/or Sanity, with Stewart pleading for sanity and Colbert for fear. In retrospect, those years would represent the zenith of their popularity. Colbert was the first Stewart acolyte to get a Daily Show spin-off, but his wouldn't be the last. John Oliver got his own show in 2014. Samantha Bee got hers in 2015. Hasan Minhaj got his in 2018. The 2010s saw The Daily Show model of news-focused political comedy spread across the landscape of television, no longer a scrappy upstart, but an institution, what we understood as what late-night television was supposed to look like. They couldn't critique hidebound media institutions for failing to do their jobs anymore, because now they were media institutions. There were two big problems with all that success. The first was that the Bush years were over. In 2008, Barack Obama became president, and while his administration had plenty of foibles for liberal comics to skewer, the central joke of the hypocrisy of neoconservatism was no longer available to them. The urgency of their comedy, the sense that they were meeting a moment as no one else could, began to fade away. The second problem was that success meant that The Daily Show brand of comedy was no longer punching exclusively up. They couldn't critique hidebound media institutions for failing to do their jobs anymore, because now they were media institutions. What else could it mean when, in 2015, Colbert took over The Late Show and became the face of CBS's late-night lineup? How late-night television lost its bite When Trump won the presidential election in 2016, part of the received wisdom was that this would be great for comedy. Trump, after all, was a joke. He would offer all those Daily Show graduates plenty of fodder for their routines. Instead, liberal comedy faltered. The skill set they had developed for the Bush years, the ripping away of pious lies to reveal the violent truth below, had no particular effect on a figure as shameless and straightforward as Trump. One by one, the shows of the Daily Show alums began to topple. Patriot Act With Hasan Minhaj went in 2020. Full Frontal With Samantha Bee left in 2022. On The Daily Show itself, hosted from 2015 to 2022 by Trevor Noah, ratings toppled. Colbert dropped his character to host The Late Show, but he criticized Trump often and vociferously as himself. All the same, his work didn't feel particularly biting or urgent anymore. Young people, particularly young men, were more likely to find right-wing comedy to be edgy and transgressive. Yet somehow, with a president this thin-skinned, and a corporate leadership this obsequious, Stephen Colbert has been rendered threatening once again. 'If something was the height of fashion 20 years ago, that almost inversely makes it less likely to seem hip and cool at the moment,' the media critic Matt Sienkiewicz told me in 2022. 'There's a rebelliousness in the way people think of this right-wing comedy, right? Even if it really is regressive and pointing back to old dominant ideas. But it can be branded as being the opposite of Stephen Colbert crying about January 6 during his monologue, which is very much not cool to the teens.' That's part of what's so striking about Paramount's decision to cancel Colbert's show in an apparent attempt to curry favor with Trump: Colbert's work hasn't felt dangerous in a long time. We're a long way from that 2006 White House Correspondent's Dinner, when Colbert delivered his jokes to a tense and scandalized crowd and Bush walked away furious. Colbert is the definition of a mainstream comedian now, and it doesn't seem as though anyone has any illusions that the jokes he cracks in between celebrity glad-handing and crowd work are culturally fundamental.
Eater
4 days ago
- Business
- Eater
Ferry Building Foot Traffic Set to Climb Past Pre-COVID Numbers
is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. The Ferry Building is more than recovered from the worst of the pandemic. According to the San Francisco Business Times, the marketplace is set to exceed its pre-2020 foot traffic numbers. Owner Hudson Pacific Properties (HPP) told the outlet a flurry of activity from sexy new restaurant operators and a pivot toward nightlife has already paid off. To that end, the Ferry Building in 2024 saw a 200 percent jump in foot traffic from 2020, also just one percent less than 2019 numbers. That tracks. Since 2020, Nite Yun's Lunette joined the mix with her spring 2024 debut, and most recently Nopa Fish Market brought a phenomenal influx of primo seafood to the scene. Red Bay Coffee's evening offerings are just now joining the marketplace, and Parachute + Arquet are set to open this summer, bringing chef Alex Hong's and pastry chef Nasir Zainulabadinand's fare to the former Slanted Door space. HPP told the outlet talks are finalizing for a new tenant to take over the 100-person patio in front of the south end of the Ferry Building, to Sacramento Mexican joint's new venture The owners of Midtown's Cantina Alley, a favorite for ceviche tostadas and stiff drinks, will open a restaurant in the former Q'bole space at 718 Sutter Street, Suite 201. The Sacramento Bee reports this Folsom's Historic District location was vacated by Q'bole's Diana Calderon after a lengthy arbitration with the landlord, which is still ongoing. Brazen ice cream flavors hit Berkeley Melt Me Creamery opened during the second weekend in July, bringing a huge suite of inventive ice cream to Martin Luther King Jr Way. The San Francisco Chronicle writes owners Nutchapol Phaungjit and Suphaluk Moontha were inspired by their international travels to take options to the next level. Guests can expect mango sticky rice, cheddar cheese ice cream, sweet corn, and more at the new creamery. Regenerative farmer and author talk turkey The Patagonia Provisions pop-ups continue in the Bay Area, this latest effort a book reading in San Francisco and Palo Alto. Author and journalist Kelsey Timmerman will speak with the Bay Area farmers of Markegard Family Grass-Fed about her new book Regenerating Earth: Farmers Working with Nature to Feed Our Future. At 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23 Timmerman will speak with Doniga Markegard, tickets available online. A subsequent book signing in Palo Alto takes place Thursday, July 24, tickets also available. Eater SF All your essential food and restaurant intel delivered to you Email (required) Sign Up By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
