Headliner
Thai Diner
Thai meets American comfort food at the latest offering from Ann Redding and Matt Danzer, whose successful Thai restaurant Uncle Boons has a Michelin star. Thai influences season dishes like Thai tea French toast and an egg sandwich with Thai sausage. Lunch options include spicy chopped chicken livers, stuffed cabbage with chicken, and water chestnuts in green curry. Initially open from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., the restaurant will eventually be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. In the meantime, Ms. Redding and Mr. Danzer have closed the nearby Uncle Boons Sister for walk-ins, and will offer only delivery.
186 Mott Street (Kenmare Street), 646-559-4140, thaidiner.com.
Opening
Boketto
This casual outlet for Asian street food-style fare, like donburi rice bowls with custom toppings, bao sliders, and nachos with Japanese jalapeño mayonnaise, has big plans. Expansion to Miami and elsewhere on the East Coast is on the horizon. In the meantime, the space, open for a quick lunch by day, becomes a gracious setting for more formal dinners by evening.
1001 Avenue of the Americas (37th Street), 646-669-8925, boketto.com.
Ava Social
This collection of areas for drinking and dining off the lobby of the Archer, a boutique hotel in the garment district, is run by Charlie Palmer’s company. Food for sharing, like various dips, an oversize calzone and grilled skewers, are served to pair with cocktails like an Oaxacan Negroni made with mezcal. A large bar is the focus of the space. (Opens Saturday)
Archer Hotel New York, 45 West 38th Street, 212-302-3838, avasocial.com.
American Bar
David Rabin and Kyle Hotchkiss Carone, who were involved with creating Cafe Clover and Clover Grocery, have opened this watering hole with food by Carolina Santos-Neves, who was at Comodo. Her cooking follows a well-trod path with an artichoke dip, fried calamari, wedge salad, mac and cheese and a burger, though it should be noted that Dover sole for $55 is a borderline bargain. Cocktails, like most these days, are divided into classic and inventive. Art posters brighten the room.
33 Greenwich Avenue (West 10th Street), 212-370-4600, americanbarnyc.com.
Bar Camillo
With two restaurants in Brooklyn, Camillo in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Locanda Vini e Olii in Clinton Hill, up and running, Michael Schall, the chef Michele Baldacci and the manager-sommelier Rocco Spagnardi have opened this offshoot, a Roman-style trattoria. Highlights are thin pinsa pizzas and several baked specialties including cacio e pepe. There’s a list of $10 Negronis and spritzes.
333 Tompkins Avenue (Gates Avenue), Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 347-533-6340, barcamillo.com.
Rule of Thirds
This casual Japanese izakaya-inspired restaurant serving small plates and items grilled over binchotan charcoal, as well as some more substantial dishes like tonkatsu, is the work of the chef JT Vuong, George Padilla, formerly of Okonomi, and partners. It’s in the A/D/O by Mini work space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and is also a collaboration with Sunday Hospitality. (Saturday)
171 Banker Street (Wythe Avenue), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 347-334-6684, thirdsbk.com.
Tramonti Fifth Ave
Tramonti offers seafood, pasta, pizza and more, with some dishes, like gnocchi alla Sorrentina and seafood pasta inspired by the Amalfi Coast, where the chef, Giovanni Vittorio Tagliafierro, is from. The restaurant also has a raw bar specializing in oysters.
2 West 28th Street, 212-464-7082, tramontififthave.com.
Gotham West Market
This market on the West Side of Manhattan is getting two new additions: Sushi on Jones with express omakase and Don Wagyu for Japanese meat and chicken sandwiches, as well as fried beef and chicken nuggets and a housemade Wagyu dog.
Gotham West Market, 600 11th Avenue (44th Street), 212-582-2188, gothamwestmarket.com.
Freds at Barneys New York
The closing of Barneys New York on Sunday will not affect the ninth-floor restaurant. It will remain open. New management by Infuse Hospitality, which sets up and runs food and beverage venues for companies, will be in charge as of Monday. The chef will be Alfredo Escobar, and hours will remain the same. Authentic Brands Group has taken over the store.
660 Madison Avenue (61st Street), 212-833-2200, no web.
Closing
Aldea
After 10 years, the chef and restaurateur George Mendes will close his Portuguese-accented restaurant with a Michelin star in the Flatiron district. “I think it ran its course on this block,” he said. For the time being, he will be dealing with a new baby, due in July. Aldea’s last service will be Saturday.
31 West 17th Street, 212-675-7223, aldearestaurant.com.
Morimoto
A 15-year run for Masaharu Morimoto’s enormous restaurant will end in May. The lease is up, and his partner, Stephen Starr, will not renew it, though the Morimoto restaurant in Philadelphia will remain open.
88 10th Avenue (16th Street), 212-989-8883, morimotonyc.com.
Barca
The sleek waterfront seafood restaurant from Dave Pasternack and Victor Rallo on Staten Island has closed, as has the adjacent barbecue restaurant, Surf. Barca will become Pastavino for traditional Italian fare, and Surf will be turned into Navy Pier Prime & Taproom, a sports bar and steakhouse.
44 and 37 Navy Pier Court, Stapleton Heights, Staten Island.
Chefs on the Move
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
This globe-trotting chef is expanding into Africa. He will open two restaurants in the historic La Mamounia hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco, this year: an Italian trattoria and an Asian restaurant featuring the food of Southeast Asia. The hotel is closing May 25 for renovations and will reopen, with the new restaurants, on Sept. 1.
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