Headliner
Mission Ceviche Restaurant & Bar
Peruvian tastes have a new home on the Upper East Side. José Luis Chavez, a native of Peru who was raised in Venezuela, works out of an open kitchen in this stylish restaurant, which has an arresting wall sculpture of a black sea bass. Here, he gives a more formal presentation to many of the dishes served at his stalls in the Gansevoort and Canal Street Markets. Ceviches share the menu with grilled anticucho skewers of octopus or beef heart, larger plates of seafood or chicken over rice, and causas. Often served cold, causas combine mashed potatoes, which can be yellow, purple, orange or white, with ingredients like seafood, eggs and avocado. “I want people to appreciate Peruvian food and ingredients, especially the causas,” he said. There’s a bar up front where pisco, the Peruvian grape spirit, figures in 10 of the 12 cocktails, including a pisco and tonic and a piscajita, a riff on the popular Mexican salt-rimmed drink. Miguel Yarrow and Brice Mastroluca are partners in this venture. (Opens Wednesday)
1400 Second Avenue (72nd Street), 212-650-0014, missionceviche.com.
Opening
Shun
Joseph Dirand, the French architect, has created a special-occasion bar upstairs from its sibling, Le Jardinier, the vegetable-forward restaurant that opened last month. The Art Deco glamour of the bar and lounge, with mirrors, brass, lacquer and plush seating, make it a destination for cocktails. Shun is the second restaurant led by Alain Verzeroli, the chef and protégé of Joël Robuchon, who was supposed to be in charge but died last year. At the bar, Mr. Verzeroli offers small bites like croquettes of brandade and endives with smoked salmon. There is a subdued dining room opposite, with a more Japanese aesthetic reflected in gleaming dark lacquer and tableware by Japanese craftsmen. There, Mr. Verzeroli, who describes Shun’s French menu as “more fine-dining” than Le Jardinier’s, frequently slips in Asian and Japanese ingredients. Asparagus with wasabi cream, lemongrass lobster, turbot with salted plum brown butter, walnut miso eggplant alongside lamb reflect his long tenure at Mr. Robuchon’s Tokyo restaurant.
610 Lexington Avenue (53rd Street), 212-451-9228, shun-nyc.com.
LaLou
Wine buffs know the name Lalou Bize-Leroy, a Burgundian winemaker who has championed natural and biodynamic techniques and who was long associated with Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. At this wine bar, the partners Joe Campanale and Dave Foss emphasize natural wines on an intriguing list that also highlights lesser-known European grapes. Flatter the sardines with a glass of pigato, a white from Liguria. They’re on the concise menu by Ashley Rath, the chef and a partner, of small and larger plates, like zucchini escabeche, cobia tartare, potato dumplings with greens, monkfish with rhubarb and lardo, and roast chicken for two. Desserts include Eton mess. Ilyssa Satter, another partner, is in charge of the creative side. The restaurant is done mostly in earth tones. (Thursday)
581 Vanderbilt Avenue (Dean Street), Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, laloubrooklyn.com.
Tsukimi
This Japanese newcomer, serving an 11-course kaiseki menu, has a single 14-person seating each evening. The chef is Takanori Akiyama, in partnership with Karen Lin. They worked together at Bar Moga, where Mr. Akiyama was also the chef, and still work together at SakaMai. (Wednesday)
228 East 10th Street (Second Avenue), no phone, tsukimi.nyc.
Sullivan Street Pizza
Jim Lahey is incorporating his pizzeria, which closed last year, into his Ninth Avenue bakery. Wednesdays through Saturdays from 6 to 10 p.m., he’ll offer two basic pizzas: margherita and spinach, with toppings that include pepperoni, red onions, capers and burrata. Assorted sides, like caponata, chickpeas, cauliflower, mixed olives, and prosciutto and melon, are also available, as is an olive oil cake with whipped ricotta for dessert. He has done a little redecorating, with some pieces from the ceramist Margaret Braun.
236 Ninth Avenue (24th Street), 212-929-5900, sullivanstreetpizza.com.
The Turk’s Inn
An overdressed Turkish restaurant that opened in 1934 in Hayward, Wis., is now reborn with lavish Ottoman details. Varun Kataria and Tyler Erickson knew it as children and, when it closed five years ago, they bought all the décor at auction and have reassembled it on two floors in Brooklyn. The dining room is said to be a faithful replica of the original. The chef, Alberto Carballo, has devised a Turkish and Middle Eastern menu. A kitschy takeout spot for shawarma called Doner Kebab is adjacent to the main restaurant. (Thursday)
234 Starr Street (Wyckoff Avenue), 718-215-0025, turksnyc.com.
Savanna Rooftop
When it comes to views, the boroughs outside Manhattan have it all. Here’s another alluring aerie for drinks and bites like chicken satays, beef sliders, tacos, spicy cucumber salad and corn on the cob dressed with chipotle mayonnaise and cotija cheese.
Z Hotel, 11-01 43rd Avenue (11th Street), Long Island City, Queens, 212-319-7000, savannarooftop.com.
Faubourg
Montclair, N.J., meets Paris at this contemporary take on a brasserie from Olivier Muller, the former corporate chef for Daniel Boulud’s restaurants, and Dominique Paulin, the former director of operations of Mr. Boulud’s restaurants. It’s in a space that housed a bank, with dining on two levels as well as outdoors. Faubourg is French for suburb, appropriate enough for Montclair, though a number of Parisian streets and neighborhoods are called faubourgs because, at one time, they were outside the city center. (Wednesday)
544 Bloomfield Avenue (South Park Street), Montclair, N.J., 973-542-7700, faubourgmontclair.com.
Looking Ahead
Ella
Manoella Buffara, also known as Manu, one of Brazil’s most respected chefs and the owner of Manu, a restaurant in Curitiba, in southern Brazil, is planning to open this restaurant in the fall. With Michael Satsky and Brian Gefter, hospitality entrepreneurs, as partners, the 6,000-square-foot restaurant will feature seasonal fare and local ingredients infused with Brazilian verve. Brazilian artistry will be showcased throughout.
436 West 15th Street.
Closed
Dez
The casual Mediterranean-Middle Eastern spot that ESquared Hospitality opened in NoLIta about a year ago, with the chef Eden Grinshpan as a partner in the kitchen, has closed.
