New & Noteworthy
As 2019 draws to a close, so will new openings. I have no new restaurants to add to the New & Noteworthy list this week. The one I had been eying is stalled by a city permit with no hard open date as of yet. In the meantime, the list below is so robust, there is certainly no lack of new places to check out .
New & Noteworthy (week of Dec 2)
Anton’s Opened mid-November
- Anton’s Is Nick Anderer’s Ode to Old New York
- Former Union Square Hospitality Star Chef Debuts a Throwback European Restaurant
Būmu Opened early-October
- Būmu, Lively Izakaya-Style Restaurant, Opens in NYC
- Joaquin Baca’s Teo Is Reborn (Sort of) in Greenwich Village
- Think of Bumu, a New West Village Restaurant, as the Comeback Kid
Café Kitsuné Opened mid-November
- Kitsuné Is Serving Up Parisian Cool at a New West Village Café
- Maison Kitsuné Brings Its Cafe To New York
- Maison Kitsuné brings Parisian luxury and Japanese minimalism to their first NYC café
- Maison Kitsuné’s Masaya Kuroki Pays Close Attention to the Menu “You’ve got to focus.”
Daymoves Opened mid-September
- James Murphy’s Café and Bar, Daymoves, Opens This Week
- James Murphy’s new Williamsburg cafe, Daymoves, opens this week
- James Murphy Has Got the Daymoves
Golden Diner Dinner service early-September
Gotham Reopened early-September
Il Fiorista Opened mid-September
- Time Out Review
- Everyone Fantasizes of Opening Their Dream Restaurant. This Couple Actually Did It.
- How to Cook a Meal (Almost) Entirely Out of Flowers
Jean-Georges Revamped Tasting Menus early-September
- A Vivid New Menu Debuts at Jean-Georges
- Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Columbus Circle Fine Dining Jewel Makes a Big Menu Pivot
- Jean-Gorges Wants His Third Michelin Star Back. Here’s How He Plans to Get It
The Jones Opened late-August
- An Iconic Noho Space Starts New Life Today as a Light and Bright Seafood Cafe: Great Jones Cafe has been revived by Gabriel Stulman as the Jones, a casual cafe aimed at locals
- The Jones Is Gabriel Stulman’s Loving Revamp of the Great Jones Cafe
Kochi Opened early-November
- Daily Dish Kochi review: Observations from My First Visit
- Former Neta Chef Opens an Elegant Korean Skewer Restaurant Tonight
- Kochi Arrives With a Focus on Korean Royal Cuisine
- High Dining Chef Opens Hell’s Kitchen Tasting Menu Spot
Lekka Burger Opened mid-November
- Dirt Candy’s Trailblazing Chef Opens a Fast-Casual Veggie Burger Spot Today
- Veggie God Amanda Cohen Enters the Plant-Based Burger Wars
- Lekka Burger from Dirt Candy’s Amanda Cohen is opening in NYC
Llama-San Opened early-September
- Llama San Is Not a Typical Postcard From Peru
- Ají Panca Meets Ponzu at the Inventive New Llama-San The Peruvian-Japanese fusion cooking contains multitudes
- The Cross-Cultural Cuisine of Llama San
Nami Nori Opened early-October
- Masa Vets Are Opening a Playful Sushi Hand Roll Restaurant in the West Village
- The Owners of a New Sushi Spot Want to ‘Bring Back the Dynamite Roll’
- Temaki Hand Rolls With a Twist in the West Village
- Nami Nori, a West Village Restaurant by the Former Masa Chefs, Does Not Do Fusion
Xu’s Public House Opened early-November
This weekly list is not comprehensive of every new place but a short alphabetized list of new places that I think are notable. Restaurants that have been opened for more than three months will not be included.