Headliner
T-Bar
Lease issues have caused the restaurateur Tony Fortuna’s popular Upper East Side cynosure to relocate after 27 years. It’s still on the Upper East Side, but just barely, closer to Bloomingdale’s than the Carlyle. It’s been installed with suitably luxurious touches in a three-story townhouse, allowing for a bar area with tables, a main dining room a few steps above, and a private party room, which the original restaurant lacked. The décor, including crystal chandeliers and velvet booths, conveys elegance. The menu carries few surprises, with an appetizer pizza, tuna tartare, shrimp cocktail, salads (Caesar, chopped), some crispy sushi, steaks ($56 to $155) with choices of sauce, main dishes like grilled salmon and crispy duck, and pastas, including cavatelli Antonucci in a nod to Francesco Antonucci, another Upper East Side restaurateur. There’s a lounge with music and, to really pamper the regulars and investors, a special V.I.P. entrance.
116 East 60th Street, 212-772-0404, tbarnyc.com.
Opening
Kingfisher
André Hueston Mack has added this seafood spot with Shaker touches in the décor to his growing collection in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood. The chef Nico Bouter, from the Netherlands, has devised a menu that features razor clams with fennel and green apple, fluke with butternut squash and pepitas, summer chicories with aged pine nuts and goat cheese, lobster with chorizo and celeriac, and monkfish with potatoes, green herbs and shallot jus. Desserts include a panna cotta with buttermilk and grapes. The wine list, which offers several half-bottles, covers many destinations. (Opens Wednesday)
505 Rogers Avenue (Midwood Street), Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, 347-240-1562, kingfishernyc.com.
High Tide
For now, this bar serving lighter fare, like clam chowder and a lobster roll, is in Beta mode. Alex and Miles Pincus, whose company, Crew, also runs the seasonal waterfront spots Grand Banks, Pilot and Island Oyster, among others, had planned for a summer opening, but delays set in, giving it just a month before it goes into drydock until spring. When it reopens, it will offer a fuller menu from the chef, Kerry Heffernan, who oversees all the company’s food. (Saturday)
1B Water Street (Fulton Ferry Landing), Dumbo, Brooklyn, no phone, crewny.com.
All’Antico Vinaio
A second New York outpost of this justifiably popular Italian sandwich shop has opened. Florence, Italy, where Tommaso Mazzanti’s original shop is based, is known for the finesse of its crafts, which includes his well-made sandwiches. There are 16 choices on square sandwich rolls, many dressed with artichoke cream, truffle cream, pistachio cream and spicy eggplant.
225 Sullivan Street (West Third Street), 917-672-2641, allanticovinaionyc.com.
