New & Noteworthy (Week of March 2)

Those who mourned the closing of Barbuto last May after its sixteen year run on Washington Street can rejoice. Jonathan Waxman is back, and the Barbuto reboot is only a stone’s throw from its original location with the same open kitchen concept, large pizza oven, as well as floor-to-ceiling windows. Word is that the menu is largely unchanged as well, so rest assured, you can get your JW chicken with salsa verde. However, note that as of now, you can only get it between Tuesday and Saturday, 6-9 PM.

232 Bleeker Opened mid-December

• Dig’s Finer Dining Debut Serves a Knockout Roast Chicken
• More New Restaurants Are Roasting Oysters, And They Are G-O-O-D
• Inside Suzanne Cupps New Vegetable-Focused, Wood-Fired Restaurant

Barbuto Opened late-February

• Everything You Need to Know About the Return of Barbuto
• Roast Chicken Alert: Barbuto Is Back Starting Tonight
• The Beloved West Village Restaurant Barbuto Gets a Reboot

Da Toscano Opened early-February

• Seasoned Regional Italian Cooking Vets Return to NYC With Da Toscano
• Da Toscano Opens, From the Former Chef of Perla
• Michael Toscano’s Da Toscano Opens Next Week in Former Perla Space

Ernesto’s Opened early-January

• Ernesto’s Is a Modern Tribute to the Food of Spain
• Fine Dining Vet Brings Basque Cuisine to Two Bridges

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 Chef’s New Veggie Burger Spot Is the Cutting Edge of Junk Food
• Veggie God Amanda Cohen Enters the Plant-Based Burger Wars

Piggyback NYC Opened mid-January

• Pig and Khao Chef Unveils Her Latest in Chelsea
• A Seasoned Team’s Irreverent New Pan-Asian Restaurant Opens Tonight Near Penn Station
• The Chef of Pig & Khao Brings Hainan Duck and Curry Puffs to Midtown

Sampotei Opened late-January

• It’s Mabo Tofu Ramen Time at Sanpoutei
• Sanpoutei Gyoza & Ramen debuts this evening on 2nd Avenue
• Off the Menu – Openings 

Thai Diner Opened mid-February

• Inside Thai Diner, the Highly Anticipated New Restaurant From the Hit Uncle Boons Team
• The Per Se vets behind Thai stunner (and Michelin-starred restaurant) Uncle Boons has followed-up with this more casual, diner-like restaurant with a playful Thai-American menu

Verōnika Opened early-January

• Stephen Starr’s Latest Is a Grand European-Style Brasserie in a Sleek New Museum
• Restaurant Verōnika at Fotografiska Museum opens from Stephen Starr
• Roman and Williams imbues an impressionistic glow on Verōnika at Fotografiska

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 open for more than four months will not be included.