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Winter demands steaming bowls of ramen, Chinese hot pot and Vietnamese pho. It’s also the time to get to know jeongol, a Korean broth specialty cooked, like a hot pot, in the center of the table and meant to be shared. This new spot with induction burners on every table is from the restaurant group Hand Hospitality (which includes Her Name Is Han). Among the appetizers are a shrimp salad with pine nuts, octopus terrine, and edamame pancake. More substantial plates of steamed fish and roasted pork chop with oyster sauce are also offered. The no-frills room is done in oak and concrete. (Opens Friday)
110 Madison Avenue (30th Street), 917-261-4326, onnewyork.net.
Opening
The Fly
Leah Campbell, Nialls Fallon and Nick Perkins, who own Cervo’s on the Lower East Side and Hart’s in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, along with Katie Jackson (also a partner in Hart’s), are adding this wine bar and rotisserie chicken spot near Hart’s. The wines, many of them identified as natural, come from around the globe. The chicken, spinning on a vertical rotisserie, are sold whole or by the half. There’s also a pulled chicken sandwich. The restaurant’s name refers to a popular cocktail served at Hart’s, called Mosca de la Fruta, or fruit fly, made with mezcal, orange liqueur and lime. (Thursday)
549 Classon Avenue (Fulton Street), Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, 347-405-5300, theflybrooklyn.com.
Gertie
From breakfast through dinner, this luncheonette-style restaurant and bar serves straightforward fare. During the day, there will be baked goods like squash toast, and sandwiches like a rotisserie vegetable gyro in a pita. Dinner, also from the rotisserie, will include whole fish, cuts of lamb and whole ducks cooked to order. It’s owned by Nate Adler, a partner in Huertas, in the East Village, who named it for his grandmother. Will Edwards, the chef, and Flip Biddelman, the manager, are also partners. (Thursday)
58 Marcy Avenue (Grand Street), Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-636-0902, gertie.nyc.
Mister Paradise
This Art Deco cocktail bar features reinterpreted classics like an old-fashioned made with olive oil, buckwheat and coffee, as well as food items like fried chicken, hot pockets and a burger.
105 First Avenue (Seventh Street), no phone, misterparadisenyc.com.
Evil Twin Brewing Pop-Up Taproom
In the run-up to opening its brewery in Ridgewood, Queens, this Danish import has opened a pop-up in a nearby bar serving beers on draft and in cans until May.
Nowadays, 56-08 Cooper Avenue (Wyckoff Avenue), Ridgewood, Queens, 347-523-8535, eviltwin.nyc.
Looking Ahead
Mina’s
Mina Stone, a chef who has written a cookbook, “Cooking for Artists,” will run the restaurant at MoMA PS1 in Queens. The current restaurant tenant, M. Wells Dinette, will close Feb. 28, and the space will be renovated. When Mina’s opens in April, with a Mediterranean menu, the room will have been redesigned by Isobel Herbold, an architect, and Alex Eagleton, an artist.
22-25 Jackson Avenue (46th Avenue), Long Island City, Queens, moma.org.
The Sunken Lounge
The cocktail lounge in the historic Eero Saarinen-designed T.W.A. terminal at Kennedy International Airport will be reborn and run by Gerber Group, which runs the Campbell and other lounges in Manhattan. Among its classic cocktails will, of course, be the Aviation. The terminal will be part of the T.W.A. Hotel, where Jean-Georges Vongerichten will handle dining ; the hotel is set to open on May 15.
Kennedy International Airport.
Closing
Martina Pizzeria
This purveyor of Roman-style pizzas from Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group, with Nick Anderer in the kitchen, will close on March 24. It opened about a year and a half ago with a counter-service format, then switched to waiter service. No further details have been announced about the space or Mr. Anderer’s plans.
198 East 11th Street (Third Avenue), 646-747-6635, martinapizzeria.com.
Ikinari Steak
This Japanese chain is closing all but two of its 11 New York branches. The restaurants at 90 East 10th Street (Fourth Avenue) and 37 West 46th Street (Avenue of the Americas) will remain in business. The 243 West 54th Street (Eighth Avenue) and 154 Seventh Avenue (19th Street) locations are being turned into Pepper Lunch, where customers can sear their own food on tabletop burners.
Awards
World Restaurant Awards IMG
The Tattoo-Free Chef of the Year is Alain Ducasse. That’s actually the name of one of the awards bestowed Monday in Paris by the World Restaurant Awards IMG, a new roster created by the celebrity talent agency IMG, with guidance from 100 culinary professionals and, typically, sponsorship from luxury brands. There was no “world’s best” award, or ranking of top restaurants: Instead, Restaurant of the Year was Wolfgat in Paternoster, South Africa, about 100 miles north of Cape Town. A rustic spot in a beach cottage where the chef, Kobus van der Merwe, forages from land and sea with the help of locals, it also won for top Off-Map Destination. (You mean they couldn’t find a place in the foothills of Annapurna?) The only American winner, Vespertine, the chef Jordan Kahn’s Los Angeles tasting-menu restaurant in a towering metal and glass structure, was recognized for atmosphere. Inua, in Tokyo, combining Nordic and Japanese influences, was named best newcomer.
