Open Tabs is one curious entrepreneur’s evolving list of what’s worth your attention — across food and restaurants, training and fitness, building and investing, technology, and fatherhood.
The free work is my judgment in public.
Most restaurant lists only tell you where to go. Mine also tells you where I was wrong. THE LIST is a map of every NYC restaurant I've reviewed — including a MISSES layer nobody else publishes, because a recommendation means nothing from someone who never admits a whiff. The map is password-gated. The word changes monthly and lives in the paid post. If someone told you the word, a member vouched for you — welcome.
I’ve started companies, taught founders at Cornell, eaten my way through New York for four decades, and now I’m training for my first marathon. I write honestly about how it all connects — no corporate gloss, no thought-leadership voice, just the version I’d give a smart friend across the table. Specific over abstract, always: I’ll name the restaurant, the workout, the deal, the mistake.
Free subscribers get every essay and section, plus one free starter running playlist!
The free work is my judgment in public. The paid work is my judgment applied to you.
What a paid subscription gets you:
THE LIST — my 292 NYC restaurants, filterable, plus the “What Changed” updates when a place drops, comes back, or changes hands.
The full playlist library — every playlist, not just the ones I mention in passing.
Office Hours, applied. The question and my honest answer stay free. The paid part is the applied background & detail below it: the same problem worked all the way through and pointed at your situation.
Member polls and topic votes — you help pick what I dig into next.
I'm Randall Kane (Randy) — a native New Yorker, father of three, and entrepreneur-turned-investor. OpenTabs is my evolving list of what's worth your attention: food and restaurants, training and fitness, building and investing, technology, and fatherhood — plus running playlists I engineer by the numbers.
