Printemps, the new luxury French department store in Fidi has opened several eating and drinking spots, but Maison Passerelle is the final boss. The group behind Saga and Time & Tide,  and the chef behind Portland’s Kann operate all the venues, and at this fine dining spot they’ll be serving food influenced by Cambodia, Haiti, Vietnam and beyond. Think duck confit with West African-inspired spinach stew, and chicories with lemongrass and fish sauce.

Fedora, a staple bistro of West Village, opened in the ’50s but closed in 2020. It’s been revived by the St. Jardim team (whose wine bar is just around the corner) and a former chef at Le Rock. They gave the space and menu a little facelift, with black bass Provençal, linguine with clams, and other American dining classics.

Go Go Sing is a new karaoke bar inside Coqodaq, the clubby Korean fried chicken spot from the Cote team. It’s more of a karaoke performance space, with a communal stage, as opposed to individual rooms. The space has a shorter version of Coqodaq’s food menu, with access to the whole bar menu, and reservations can be made for 90 minute slots.

Howoo, a new KBBQ spot in Koreatown, is entirely focused on beef—DubuHaus from the same team and in the same building locks in on tofu. The tofu is made in-house from Korean soybeans, and served in dishes like dubu jorim, in bossam with braised pork, and mushroom perilla seed soondubu. Non-tofu items on the menu include perilla oil buckwheat noodles and beef yukhoe.

At the William Vale hotel in Williamsburg, Little Fino’s is an all-day spot from the chef behind Locanda Verde and Bar Primi. There’s a playful, short drinks menu with cocktails like root beer Negronis, Campari creamsicles, and a “frapperol” spritz—as well as several teeny martinis (including a Jell-O one). In the morning, you’ll find a breakfast sandwich and pastries; the evening menu has crowdpleasing dishes like burgers, sandwiches and even a section of “crowd pleasers.”

New York restaurants move down to Miami all the time. So much so that our Sunshine State colleagues wrote a whole guide about it. Sometimes, the reverse happens, like with Pura Vida and now Skinny Louie, a smashburger spot that has their first NYC location in Nomad. Single burgers start at $7.49.

Located inside 96 Tears, a bar in the East Village, Tacos Chicos serves CDMX-style tacos from 6-11pm on Wednesday-Sunday. The tacos are filled with carnitas, carne asada, pollo chipotle, and spinach and mushroom.

PappaRich, a Malaysian restaurant in Flushing (that also has a location in Houston), has a second NYC spot on the Lower East Side. We love the roti canai, seafood curry laksa, and party atmosphere at their Queens location.

In the West Village, Son Del North has a second location for their housemade flour tortillas. They’re slinging burritos stuffed with things like carne asada and eggs and rajas in a slightly larger space with a few tables. As always, they’re making a point that they don’t put rice in their burritos.

On the Williamsburg waterfront at Domino Park, Birdee is an all-day spot from the Crown Shy people. They offer things like croissants, cookies, and brioche, in addition to breakfast and lunch sandwiches, and salads—all whipped up by an alum of Eleven Madison Park and Saga.

From a former chef from Tong in Bushwick, Chada is a Thai restaurant in Greenwich Village. In a dark, sexy space with lighting fixtures that look like Buddhist temples, they serve fancy cocktails with Thai ingredients, as well as pretty plates of lobster tail kang kua, beef tartare with toasted rice powder, and green pandan dumplings, folded like crumpled paper around caramelized peanuts and pickled radishes.

Cuts & Slices puts oxtail on pizza, Lucia puts creamed spinach on pizza, and Traze made a name for itself as a popup by putting falafel on square, grandma-style pies. After around a decade of slinging pizza at rock shows, Traze has a counter slice shop in Long Island City. Their toppings include things like vodka pepperoni and vodka, sausage, red onion and jalapeño.

In Park Slope, Luya Omakase does sub-$100 sushi at a small counter. It’s $88 for 16 courses, with a few appetizers like snow crab wanmono, 10 pieces of nigiri, and donburi and a hand roll at the end.

In the East Village, Pavlo Mochi is a wall-to-wall pink shop that specializes in freshly made mochi, filled with things like mango, passionfruit, and raspberry and pistachio. They also have drinks, like matcha with boba, and soft serve.

The space race between new-school bagel shops Popup Bagels and Apollo Bagels isn’t cooling off. The latest is Popup’s Williamsburg location, where you can get their baked-fresh bagels, and a tub of weekly-rotating schmear.

Pull-Tab is a coffee shop in Bryant Park that specializes in something they call aerofoam coffee—think a dalgona foam and a variety of flavors. It's the first US location of a Chinese chain.

In Clinton Hill, Samyan is a Thai restaurant named after a neighborhood in Bangkok that’s known for its food scene. Their Thai classics include green curry and pad kee mao, as well as whole fried branzino with caramelized fish sauce and massaman with short rib.

Kossar’s—NYC’s most famous bialy bakery—has a fifth location on the Upper West Side. They serve breakfast all day, in addition to bagels, wraps, and coffee.

Pates Et Traditions, a French restaurant in Williamsburg, didn’t make it through the pandemic. But the original owner is back in the space, which is now called Maison Provence. They’re serving brunch, with things like a French omelette with mushrooms and goat cheese for brunch, and a full dinner menu of savory crepes and cheese boards.

Rooftop season is looming, and Leonessa, at the Conrad Hotel in FiDi, looks like a strong new contender for drinking with a view of the Hudson River. The cocktail bar has an Italian theme—it’s from one of the people behind Roscioli and Tokyo Record Bar—which means you can expect lots of spritzes and martinis.

The East Village is on a run of hot bar openings. At El Camino on 1st Ave., the focus is on classic cocktails. The bar is from the folks behind Electric Burrito and HighLife (a new burger joint next door). They have Spanish tapas to share and the drinks are all priced at $16 or under, with $10 “short” martinis available before 7pm on weekdays.

Manhattan has its first confirmed 2D restaurant. Every surface, table, and chair at this East Village omakase spot is designed to look like it lays flat on a page. Shirokuro offers a few sub-$100 omakase options, as well as a three-roll combo for $25.

Another week, another flaky new pastry. This one isn’t a croissant, though, it’s a bureka. At Buba Bureka in Greenwich Village, they stuff the savory pastry with things like tahini, pickles, and hard boiled eggs.

This Korean izakaya chain has around 150 outposts around the world, with their first US location in Flatiron. It’s inspired by 1920s Japanese pubs, and the extensive menu has everything from raw fish, noodles, and grilled and fried bites as well as plenty of beer and sake options. Also a cat as a mascot.

In FiDi, One40 Rooftop is located on top of the Club Quarters Hotel. You can get breakfast, lunch or dinner here with a view of One World Trade. It looks like a fairly standard upscale hotel restaurant menu, with an extra emphasis on fresh vegetables and colorfully plated meats, like roasted duck breast with purple cauliflower and orange sauce.

Bakeries. So hot right now. And the new Filipino bakery Kora just might be the hottest. What started as a donut pop-up that we loved is now a spacious brick-and-mortar in Sunnyside—there’s plenty of tables where you can sit and enjoy things like leche flan and an apple tamarind fritter.

We checked out Kora and added it to the Hit List.

The matcha movement might have a new epicenter. 12 Matcha in Noho comes from a group of partners that include a 180-year-old Japanese tea farm, a food scientist at Cornell, and the current pastry chef at Danish fine dining temple Noma. Expect long lines.

The Koreatown boom continues. Niku X, which comes from the same hospitality group that brought Boston’s Matsunori Handroll Bar to Long Island City last month, is an all-you-can-eat Japanese BBQ spot (with an LA location) serving unlimited A5 wagyu for $99-149, depending on the package you choose. You’ll have 120 minutes to eat to your stomach’s capacity.

From the team behind LIC’s Nai Brother comes Nai Brother Sauerkraut Fish. The Chinese spot near Columbia focuses on soups and stews, like the Nai Brother Classic with pickled mustard greens and fish fillets in a green pepper soup, or meatier options like the Mao Xue Wang with tripe and ham.

Be Pasta comes from the people behind Spes, Have & Meyer, and Terre. Check out a pasta-forward menu with things like fried tortellini, alongside a bunch of Italian natural wine.

Have a gaping hole in your stomach that only a Spam musubi can cure? Good news if you’re in Bushwick—national chain L&L Hawaiian BBQ has their third NYC location in North Brooklyn.

Bar Kabawa, which opened in early February, is a great time, especially if you're into patties and daiquiris. But it’s just the starter. Kabawa, in the adjacent East Village space that used to house Momofuku Ko, is the main. Starting March 25, the Caribbean-inspired restaurant will be serving an immersive, three-course, $150 prix fixe. 

The city has birthed another omakase spot, but this one’s different. Kansha is Japanese and Peruvian, from a chef who studied in Tokyo and grew up in Peru. In addition to a $145 omakase—served at a counter made from a 100-year-old hinoki tree—the bi-level Upper East Side restaurant has an a la carte menu with ceviche, nigiri, and lomo saltado.

The pair behind Confidant didn’t just work at Roberta’s together. They’re also best friends and former roommates. At the first full-service restaurant in Industry City, they’re offering trout mousse on grilled sourdough, a prawn pot pie, and dry-aged meats, including a whole crown of duck topped with brown rice vinegar agrodolce.

Parisian luxury retailer Printemps has landed in FiDi, with a whimsical shoe forest, a menswear section featuring pink moiré wallpaper, and five food and beverage outlets overseen by Gregory Gourdet. On the second floor, Parisian-inspired raw bar Salon Vert is serving Creole shrimp cocktail, caviar, and seafood plateaus, alongside wine and cocktails.

On the ground floor of Printemps, Café Jalu is an all-day spot where you can grab a Devoción coffee after browsing the immersive sneaker room nearby. They have a selection of baked goods, including gluten-free spiced banana and pineapple bread, sesame cookies, and pain au chocolate Haïtene.

Named for the room-spanning Art Deco mosaic on the premises, Printemps’ Red Room Bar is, naturally, dressed in red marble. Pop in for a Negroni with Haitian coffee or a glass of Ruinart brut rosé. The ground-floor spot is just past the boudoir, down a pink marble staircase.

The final Printemps opening for now (Maison Passerelle will debut mid-April), Champagne Bar is exactly what it sounds like. In addition to a few Champagnes by the glass, ranging from around $20-$60, there are also juices available.

Apollo's crispy, chewy, crackly bagels—which took the four spot on our citywide ranking—are now available in FiDi. Looking for a bagel that reads like a loaf of sourdough? Trying to avoid all the people you know waiting in line at the West Village location? Head on over. As noted on Apollo's IG, the FiDi outpost is conveniently located next to an Eyebrow Zone.

Did you think the fancy hot dog trend was over? No shot. BKK New York, a Midtown restaurant inspired by Bangkok street food, is doing one with housemade Chiang Mai pork sausage on a brioche bun. They also have a wagyu burger, pumpkin curry, and a whole fried branzino with frizzled lemongrass.

In the northeast corner of Long Island City, Darjeeling Kitchen & Café is a halal, women-owned spot serving Tibetan and Himalayan food. They have a variety of fried and steamed momos, as well Tibetan-style beef patties, thukpa with a broth simmered over 24 hours, and a Himalayan breakfast platter—all cooked by a mother from Darjeeling.

The team behind Tarallucci e Vino, an Italian wine bar and restaurant with four locations across Manhattan, has a new counter-service pizza place. A few blocks from Union Square, La Pizza is selling square, Roman-style slices in varieties like cacio e pepe, pepperoni, and burrata with guanciale and truffle oil. The chef, a native of Rome, uses a 50-year-old family sourdough starter and ferments his dough for three days.

Laliko, a Georgian place in the West Village, has three chefs: an executive chef, a khachapuri chef, and a khinkali chef, who is presumably responsible for the Mother Khinkali (one giant dumpling, with six dumplings inside it). In addition to their wide selection of cheesy breads and dumplings, the restaurant also serves traditional Georgian beef stew, grilled pork skewers, and sausage with celery root purée. The cocktail program is centered around the Georgian spirit chacha, and they have plenty of Georgian wines as well.

The founder of Chipotle is selling sandwiches now. At Counter Service in Greenwich Village, you can pick up a mushroom patty melt, green goddess chicken club, or bánh mí with pork belly. Most of the sandwiches cost around $17, with some breakfast options—like a BEC with a hash brown on a brioche bun—clocking in under $10.

The top Vietnamese spot on the Upper West Side has an East Village sequel. Bánh Anh Em, from the Bánh team, serves food inspired in part by the chef’s motorbike trips across Vietnam. Expect things like phở with housemade noodles and Hải Phòng-style bánh mì que.

East Williamsburg institution Win Son Bakery—which still draws lines for its mochi donuts, fan tuan, and scallion pancake BEC—finally has a new location. The first Manhattan outpost is on 2nd Avenue, right above Houston, and their Taiwanese-American menu is nearly identical to the original. For now, they’re only open for delivery on DoorDash, but keep an eye on their Instagram for more updates.

Planet Hollywood is back, and in Times Square, of course. Everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Whoopi Goldberg was at the opening party  in the 17,500 square foot space. While the venue won’t feature memorabilia, the dining experience does include fake paparazzi and screaming fans, as well as cheesesteak empanadas and fried lasagna.

Ess-A-Bagel has a fifth NYC location, this time in FiDi. The classic bagel shop topped our blind taste test last year.

Chilaqueria, a restaurant in Chelsea, is now Taqueria El Prieto, which has two locations in the San Diego area. They’ve got lots of options for breakfast tacos and burritos, most of which hover around $5.

Driftaway Coffee—a roastery that sources mostly from women-owned small producers—has a tasting room in Williamsburg. Besides pour-overs and an espresso bar, they also offer coffee tasting flights.

Bateman’s, a bar in the East Village, is unironically inspired by American Psycho. According to the owners, it’s “the place that Patrick Bateman would hate to love.” Cocktails lean mostly classic here, and we’re hoping that they play exclusively Huey Lewis and The News.

Ernie O’Malley’s, an Irish pub in Kips Bay named for a general in the Irish Republican Army. The bar features part of O’Malley’s coin and stamp collection in its “museum” at the back. You’ll also find displays connecting Ireland’s freedom struggle to New York’s history, as well as a space for gigs and events. A full pub menu features both french dip and chopped cheese—and of course, a spice bag.

Matsunori Handroll Bar, a hand roll spot from Boston, has their first NYC location in Long Island City. They have options like a miso cod, snow crab, scallop, and A5 wagyu from Miyazaki.

Radio Bakery, a Greenpoint spot known for its truly stellar baked goods and even more impressive line (where we once literally saw a chat-and-cut based altercation), has a second location in Prospect Heights. This location looks like it’ll be no different, though some of their signature laminated baked goods have slight twists—for example a matcha morning bun instead of the earl grey.

We checked out Radio Bakery, and added it to the Hit List.

We’ve seen tasting menu spots with wine pairings, sake pairings, and caviar pairings, but at Raon, each savory course comes with its own different kimchi. In Lenox Hill, Raon is from the people behind Soogil, and offers 10 courses for $255, including things like uni gimbap with a jang kimchi, and tuna and caviar with baek kimchi.

At this unique restaurant in Carroll Gardens, $165 not only gets you eight courses of food, but also a professional photoshoot. You should probably dress up if you’re going to check it out. Diners are served beverages and snacks in a lounge area before the shoot, and then dinner. They also offer a la carte dining, with a menu that draws from various cuisines and includes everything from pork schnitzel to picaña steak and chicken livers with sour cherries.

Classic East Village dive Lucy’s has reopened after a break on Avenue A. It’s now being operated by the team behind Le Dive—the owner lived above the bar several years and has tried to preserve the spirit of the place, with just a small face lift.

From the team behind Electric Burrito, HighLife is a small burger stand just around the corner from their original location in the East Village. Their burgers are thin pattied, but not smashed, and they’re topped simply with LTO, cheese, pickles, and your choice of sauce. They also have hot dogs, fries, queso, and Steve’s Key Lime pies for dessert.

From the team behind our favorite Upper West Side donut shop, Super Nice Pizza is now in soft open mode on the same corner. They’re serving 12” pies, wine and more food options. Note that they are taking very limited walk-ins until fully open.

Datz Deli made a name for their mac patties at their original location in Hollis, Queens, and their Lower East Side outpost one of our favorite late-night spots. Now, they have a third location near Midtown West, for oxtail and goat curry stuffed in a patty with mac and cheese, then sandwiched between coco bread.

In Williamsburg, Hear & There combines two different spaces in one package. Up front, there’s a cocktail bar with drinking snacks—like a Chicago dog-style bao bun, and in the back, there’s an omakase counter. Sound is paramount: they’ve got a pretty serious hi-fi system in the bar space.

Former pop-up Onigiri Tanayaka sells onigiri and hand rolls for under $5, which in Gramercy especially feels like a good deal. They also have takeaway sushi sets, and all the imported Japanese groceries you’d expect to find in a konbini.

From the chef behind Dar Yemma, which closed last year, Dar Lbahja is also in Astoria. Like Dar Yemma, they serve Moroccan tagines and other dishes, in a space inspired by the city of Marrakech.

An Indian wedding-themed restaurant lands in Greenwich Village. Madam Ji Ki Shaadi (Madam Ji’s wedding) is from the owners of Madam Ji. Here, they do a set “wedding” menus for $65 per person. You can get a bindi if you want one before diving into things like beetroot chaat, makhani chicken, and chana masala. There's take-home mithai on your way out.

Ficuzza, a Sicilian restaurant in the West Village, is from the same people behind the Realmuto pastry shops. They’ve got pizzas and pastas of course, like a fusilli with roasted almond and tomato sauce, as well as some steaks, grilled Sicilian sausage, and branzino.

In Greenwich Village, Shmoné now has a wine bar next to their restaurant, serving their most popular items, like hot Jerusalem bagels—as well as snacks like chicory salad and deviled eggs with togarashi.

The smashburgers don’t stop. Blue Road is a small counter on the Lower East Side and, besides a burger, also has a $25 lobster roll as well as tater tots and onion rings on the menu.

In Koreatown, Howoo packages their KBBQ options in “Prime” and “Elite” packages—with a starting price of $155 for two people. The hospitality group behind the restaurant also plans to open a few more spots: like a restaurant specializing in handmade tofu and a raw bar.

The glitziest-looking new spot this week is Drai’s Supper Club, a French restaurant in the West Village with shockingly red banquettes and floral armchairs. There’s caviar on the pasta, and frog legs and roast chicken on the menu.

Seaport clubstaurant incoming. Gitano is the first permanent NYC location of the Tulum-based international brand, and this version will include two dance floors. The first has massive glass doors that look out onto the East River and Brooklyn Bridge, and the second is supposed to look like the inside of a disco ball.

From the people behind noodle soup spot Lucky Rabbit, Uncle J’s is a Caribbean spot in Dumbo. There are a few tables, and they have a heated counter lined with dutch ovens, full of things like rice and peas with curried pumpkin or stewed oxtails.

Criolla’s has a third location in Greenwich Village. Their baked Argentinean empanadas feature  fillings like creamy corn and shredded chicken.

The team behind Golden Diner brings an old-school Korean-style pub to 48th Street. Drinks will be the focus, with options that range from Asian craft beers to a bingsu milk punch—but the food won’t be an afterthought. There are pancakes with kimchi and crispy bacon, or chives and trout roe. Also jjajang disco fries, and pork and black bean gravy.

In the basement of the same building as Golden HOF, the same folks are launching NY Kimchi (a revamp of chef Sam Yoo’s parents’ restaurant). It’ll be a Korean raw bar and steakhouse, doing Oysters Rockefeller with kimchi-sesame butter, a Seoul seafood tower with perilla leaf mignonette, and hanger steak basted with brown doenjang butter.

Gui is a gleaming, two-story Korean steakhouse in theTheater District, from the team behind Kochi and Mari. All the meat grilling happens in the kitchen over binchotan charcoal, with premium cuts of A5 and Champion wagyu as well as thick-cut galbi, porterhouse and more. As at NY Kimchi, dishes like clam chowder pie made with a potato hoe cake, and fritto misto with gochujang remoulade play with various steakhouse traditions.

From the team behind Loulou Petit Bistro and NY Jet CJ Mosley, Le Petit Village is a West Village bistro that leans into the cooking of Provence. Expect classic comfort foods, like coq au vin, cassoulet, and ratatouille. It’s in a big, floral corner space that was formerly home to Baby Brasa.

The latest in a string of Hudson Yards openings, Casa Louie is an Italian spot with a big menu full of square and round pizzas. Pastas like lumache with pork ragú and spaghetti amatriciana round things out, and they’re all $25 or under. Entrees like a veal cutlet for two are also available.

Little Ruby’s, a staple of budget-conscious avocado toast enthusiasts in Nolita for over 20 years, has a third location in Williamsburg. It’s the Australian restaurant’s first outpost in Brooklyn.

Open since around December in Astoria, Honzen is from the chef behind Tribeca's Tsubame, which offers "kaiseki inspired omakase." Honzen specializes in another facet of kaiseki: honzen ryori set meals. In a simple room with a tatami seating option, you choose a main (from $32, mostly seafood like blue mackerel or miso cod), and a rice set (from $26, think gyu don with simmered beef, or hikiniku don with with a small hamburger steak). The seasonal side dishes can include things like uni with housemade tofu and goma-ae.

1915 Lanzhou Hand Pulled Noodles, which has been serving Kips Bay noodle soup for a year, has a second location in Chinatown. You can swing by for noodle soup and dumpling dinner, with an added show of watching someone slapping hand-pulled noodles on the counter.

Osukāā, an LIC omakase spot that’s located in a coworking space, has a second location in Midtown East. The menu at this location is limited to just sushi. Lunch omakase options start at $49, and dinner ranges from 13 courses for $69 to 17 courses for $109.

In Hudson Yards, Papa San is the third NYC restaurant from the team behind Llama Inn, and Llama San. The new spot combines Peruvian Nikkei flavors with izakaya dishes. Of course, there are ceviches on the menu—like one with razor clams and lychee—but also a “whole chicken experience” for two, which includes bone broth, yakitori, chicken breast escabeche, and oyakodon ($90). They’ll also have a section of robata-grilled items, as well as donburi. Tres Monos, a "punk rock bar" in Buenos Aires, is behind the cocktails.

While several Manhattan restaurants have drawn from India’s coastal cuisines—Lungi, Kanyakumari, Semma—Chatti is the first to explicitly refer to the toddy shop culture of the southern state of Kerala. The restaurant is less backwaters shack and more Midtown glam, but the “touchings” section of the menu features drinking snacks like beef fry, and duck mappas, and they’ll have plenty of regional bread and rice dishes too—from coin porotta to steamed puttu. As far as we know, they won’t have actual palm toddy (which doesn't have much of a shelf-life), but will be mixing cocktails inspired by the region.

At the Coda Williamsburg hotel, Meili is a Sichuan spot from the people behind Chili in Midtown. Look for takes on Sichuan classics, like mapo lobster, spicy cumin mushrooms, and a tea smoked duck served with sticky rice. Not to mention “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”—a play on “husband and wife” lung slices.

Another week, another slice shop with lofty goals. Replacing an 80-year-old deli on Greenpoint’s Diamond Street, Diamond Slice does NY slices with toppings like a buffalo chicken and caesar salad. Like Chrissy’s nearby, Diamond started as a pop-up (called After Hours). Unlike Chrissy’s though, they have plenty of space inside for seating, and do sell pizza by the slice (starting at $3.75). They even have a sign that says "Slices Are Forever" in the window.

In Dumbo, Hildur is from the team behind Colonie, an Atlantic Ave. spot that’s especially popular for brunch. Hildur is French and Scandinavian, so expect things like onion soup with rye bread croutons instead of country bread, and even Swedish meatballs au poivre.

A fire shuttered St. Anselm in September of 2024, but the steakhouse—which might have one of the best steak deals in the county at $34 for their excellent hanger—is now back open.

Langan’s, a classic Irish watering hole in the Theater District, closed in 2018 after 25 years on West 47th Street. Seven years later, they’re back just a few doors down for post-theater burgers and beers.

In Bayside, Koreatown restaurant Okdongsik has a second location. Just like the original in Seoul, this (nearly) single-dish restaurant specializes in pork gomtang: a light, clear broth with thin shingles of roasted pork.

In the former Momofuku Ko Bar space in the East Village, Kabawa is the Momofuku team’s first NYC opening since 2019. The chef is Paul Carmichael, who was at the group's Má Pêche and Seiobo in Sydney, and the menu draws from his Caribbean roots. They're starting with a daiquiri and wine bar area, where you can get patties filled with things like short rib with conch and bone marrow. The tasting menu arm of the restaurant is set to open in mid-March. Reservations are available for a few high-tops, but most of the bar is for walk-ins.

For dining with a little centrifugal force, Danny Meyer and Union Square Hospitality are re-opening The View on February 12. The revolving restaurant adds even more theatrics to the Theater District, with “American Supper Club fare” on the menu.

Sixty Three Clinton, one of the more affordable tasting menu spots in NYC, is getting a sequel on the Lower East Side. Unlike its sibling, Cactus Wren will be a la carte, although there will be caviar—served with flour tortillas—in addition to dishes like a trout roe tartlet and aged comté and honey pizza. The name is a nod to the state bird of Arizona (small, brownish), where both of the owners are from.

In East Williamsburg, Ren is a modern Sichuan restaurant that comes from some folks who worked at Birds Of A Feather. Expect classics like mapo tofu, shredded green chili beef, and spicy cumin lamb. They’ll also have a bunch of dim sum options.

Huso is in its second evolution. The restaurant started as a tasting counter inside Marky’s Caviar on the Upper East Side, but now has a brick and mortar space in Tribeca. The chef behind the 12 course, $265 tasting menu spot is Top Chef winner Buddha Lo, and the kitchen will be playing around with things like Alaskan king crab, pine nuts and trout roe; and scallops with sunchokes and vin jaune. Not forgetting their roots, they have several options for caviar service, including one that costs $1,235.