01-07-2025
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Aquarelle Brings the European Seaside to Avenue B
Opening
Baris Koroglu, an owner of this new luxuriously appointed East Village spot, is serving a European take on seafood, with dishes like fluke crudo with blood orange, scallops spiced with piri piri, branzino with Meyer lemon, and salt-baked red snapper with herbs and olive oil. It pays to note that the stoves stay lit until midnight for that restorative lobster pasta with heirloom tomatoes before you call it a night.
47 Avenue B (East Fourth Street),
Originally founded in 1873, this restaurant, a testament to the significance of the South Street Seaport, has been lovingly restored. It's also proof that the current appeal of foie gras terrine, snails, onion soup and steak frites is not new. The food is by Benjamin Wolff who worked at Racines NY, pastries are by Emma Scanlon, and the entire project is the work of Julien Legeard, the founder of Legeard Studio and Opus Hospitality, with a deep bow to the history of the place. (Opens Thursday)
119 South Street (Peck Slip), 646-386-7038,
This outdoor dining venue in Hudson Yards is from Alex and Miles Pincus of Grand Banks in Manhattan and Pilot in Brooklyn, pierside restaurants on vintage boats. The centerpiece for this summer's 200-seat sprawl is an old Hinkley lobster boat; the menu's mostly East Coast seafood lists oysters, fish and chips and a lobster BLT.
Public Square and Gardens at Hudson Yards, 350 11th Avenue (West 30th Street),
Previously, a dinner prepared by the chef Yvan Lemoine, a Food Network celeb, could be arranged only by booking My Kitchen, the catering company he owns with his wife, Rebecca Sussman. Now, from Wednesdays through Fridays, the venue becomes this intimate French American restaurant with a leafy garden lounge. Among Mr. Lemoine's specialties is classic pressed duck with cherries ($225 for two), a rare tour de force (pun intended) finished tableside in a silver duck press.
106-17 Metropolitan Avenue (Ascan Avenue), Forest Hills, Queens, 646-535-5799,
The restaurateurs Nino Coniglio and Drew Toresco have opened a pizzeria and Sicilian restaurant in a location that has one of the oldest coal ovens in the country. Exposed brick, vintage photos and leather upholstery evoke an era when coal-oven pizza was the coin of the realm for proper cheese-and-tomato pies.
254 Irving Avenue (Menahan Street), Bushwick, Brooklyn, 718-954-7184, no website.
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