All the New NYC Restaurant Openings to Know About This Week
From a new Moroccan destination to an Israeli spot’s new wine bar
Consider this your guide to all the new restaurants, bars, and cafes, that have opened recently. Here’s a roundup of the restaurants and bars that opened in February 2025 (see: January). This list will be updated weekly. If there’s an opening in your neighborhood that we’ve missed, let us know at ny@eater.com.
February 27
Astoria: The well-regarded Moroccan restaurant Dar Yemma in Astoria’s Little Egypt closed last year due to management conflict, but chef Touria Lamtahaf is back at her own restaurant, Dar Lbahja, about a mile away nearby in Astoria. 47-12 30th Avenue, at 48th Street
Battery Park City: Eater New York Award-winning Chinese counter-service restaurant Milu opened a new location inside the Brookfield Place complex’s Hudson Eats food court on Thursday, February 27. The food stall has a takeout-only menu with its core dishes such as crispy duck rice bowls and pineapple buns, and new ones like ube crinkle cookies. There’s the original Flatiron restaurant and the now-shuttered Williamsburg one. 225 Liberty Street at West Street
East Village: A new-school burrito spot is getting into the burger game with its newest restaurant. The trio behind Electric Burrito opened HighLife on Thursday, February 27 next door to its burrito stand. The fast-casual American menu includes a pair of burgers on potato buns (from a bakery in Massachusetts — not Martin’s). There’s a regular two-patty cheeseburger as well as the HighLife, an ode to In-N-Out Burger with American cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, and a special sauce. A vegetarian version features Impossible patties. Also on the menu: hot dogs, fries, and the dill-pickle queso. 135 First Avenue between East Nine Street and St. Marks Place
Greenwich Village: Chipotle founder Steve Ells is in the middle of turning his vegan robot restaurants Kernel into fast-casual sandwich shop Counter Service, starting with this location in February. The menu is simple: stacked sandwiches such as banh mi; roast beef and cheddar; and green goddess chicken club. To come are revamps of Kernel locations on Park Avenue South and East 24th Street and First Avenue and 70th Street in the following months. 54 West 14th Street, near Sixth Avenue
Greenwich Village: Michelin-starred Israeli restaurant Shmoné expanded with a new next-door wine bar, Shmoné Wine, on Tuesday, February 25. Chef and owner Eyal Shani tapped executive chef Orianne Shapira to lead the kitchen too, which serves up Jerusalem bagels as well as stracciatella lasagna served in a Pyrex. 65 West Eighth Street, near Sixth Avenue
Financial District: New York taqueria chain Los Tacos No. 1 opened its newest location in the Financial District this month. It’s the restaurant’s eighth location in the city, serving up its tacos, tostadas, quesadillas, and more. 67 Exchange Place, between New and Broad streets
Koreatown: All-you-can-eat barbecue has been harder to pull off in Manhattan’s Koreatown. High rents and other expenses have limited it to a handful of options, including Let’s Meat BBQ, open since 2018. But now, Koreatown has a new all-you-can-eat restaurant from the group behind the Manhattan location of Jongro BBQ, a popular Seoul-based chain. Jongro BBQ Market serves unlimited meats and sides for around $50 per person at dinner. The price is lower at lunch. 39 W. 32nd Street, near Broadway
Long Island City: Hong Kong’s Michelin Bib Gourmand-awarded restaurant Cafe Hunan opened its first American location in New York earlier this month in Long Island City. Named Professor Chan’s Hunan — aka Prof Chan’s Hunan — the restaurant comes from an actual Hong Kong physics professor, Guanhua Chan. When Chan first opened his restaurant in 2012, it was in response to there being no good Hunan restaurants around Hong Kong University where he was employed, so he decided to open one. Since then, Cafe Hunan expanded to six locations in China and has been awarded Michelin’s Bib Gourmand ten years in a row since 2014. 4107 Crescent Street, near 41st Avenue
Midtown West: Gui opened on February 22, the 130-seat steakhouse from chef Sungchul Shim behind seasonal Korean tasting menu spot Kochi and hand roll restaurant Mari, both Michelin-starred restaurants. The two-story location offers a primarily la carte menu while the downstairs Bar 92 features cocktails. The menu is a blend of an American steakhouse with Korean and Asian influences — a raw bar, caviar, starters like mandoo and mala blue prawns, and, past the slew of steak offerings, there are share plates like dolsot bibimbap, dan dan noodles, kimchi wagyu fried rice, and tofu star soondubu jjigae. A separate omakase restaurant on the second floor will open in the summer. 776 Eighth Avenue, between 47th and 48th streets
Rockefeller Center: Over two years ago, Sam Yoo embarked on a journey to take over his parents’ 12-year-old restaurant, New York Kimchi across from Rockefeller Center. The owner of mega-hit modern Golden Diner, he took over the lease when his parents decided to retire. On February 25, he opened two restaurants in the space. On the street level, Golden HOF touts the casual fare of a drinking den; the lower-level Korean restaurant, NY Kimchi, pays homage to its former name in steakhouse form with raw bar items. 16 W. 48th Street, near Fifth Avenue
Tribeca: A new daytime cafe focused on coffee and caviar, named, well, Coffee & Caviar, opened on Friday, February 14. There are caviar options with breads and butter, as well as coffee. Owner Dasha Smyslov, who runs a wholesale caviar distribution company, tells Eater that caviar in the morning was routine for her family when she was growing up in Moscow. They often had breakfast with coffee and butter-laden toasted bread with caviar. The cafe operates during the daytime in the Farra wine bar space (which opens in the evenings). 71 Worth Street, near Church Street
West Village: The Realmuto Hospitality Group — behind places like L’Arte del Gelato — opened a new Italian restaurant, Ficuzza, on Wednesday, February 26. The Sicilian restaurant takes its cues from its namesake village in Italy, with dishes like spaghetti with sardines, thin-crust pizzas, and skirt steak with Sicilian tomato sauce, from executive chef Romulo Barrientos. 121 Seventh Avenue South, near West 10th Street
West Village: Empanada bakery mini-chain Criollas expanded with its third location, opening on Friday, February 14. Its first guest was reggaeton icon J. Balvin. 333 Sixth Avenue at Cornelia Street
West Village: The team behind Loulou expanded with a new French restaurant, Le Petit Village, on Thursday, February 20. The menu, by executive chef Mehjabin Ahmed, focuses on Southern French cuisine — such as coq au vin, cassoulet, ratatouille and beef bourguignon. Cocktails include the pretty Fleur Blanche made with dry ice, edible glitter, and baby’s breath flowers. Restaurateurs Mino Habib and Mathais Van Leyden partnered with New York Jets captain C.J. Mosley and Brandon Wassel for this spot. 173 Seventh Avenue South, at Perry Street
Williamsburg: Growing New York Australian cafe Little Ruby’s is expanding with its fifth location and its first-ever in Brooklyn this week. The new Little Ruby’s Cafe can be found in Williamsburg as of Friday, February 21. Expect the restaurant mini-chain’s typical all-day food menu, spanning breakfast dishes like Vegemite toasts and ricotta hotcakes to burgers and grilled chicken sandwiches to bowls, alongside coffee, juices, and boozy punch bowls. 98 Berry Street at North Eighth Street
February 20
Battery Park City: Union Square Hospitality Group’s growing quick-service casual mini-chain Daily Provisions opened its eighth location this month. The new restaurant has been inside of food court Hudson Eats in Battery Park City since Monday, February 10. The all-day menu focuses on casual sandwiches (breakfast ones on poppyseed bread), salads including the kale Caesar, entrees like roasted chicken, and pastries such as crullers. Daily Provisions took over what was the former Olive restaurant on the second floor, per Tribeca Citizen. 25 Liberty Street, Suite 253, between Vesey and Liberty streets
Greenpoint: The short-lived Himalayan Newa Cafe — stationed inside a residential apartment building — has found a replacement tenant: Le Chalet du Terroir is a new Haitian cafe also serving smoothies and juices, Greenpointers first reported. 211 McGuinness Boulevard, near Calyer Street
Hudson Yards: The team behind the modern Peruvian Williamsburg restaurant Llama Inn opened another spot this month. Papa San is a Japanese Peruvian izakaya inside the Spiral — the first restaurant to open at the property, and a partnership with real estate company Tishman Speyer. It debuted on Tuesday, February 18. 501 West 34th Street near 10th Avenue
Lower East Side: At the top of 2025, music venue Baby’s All Right owner Billy Jones expanded with two near ventures. Funny Bar has a daily bar menu that includes steak frites. Around the same time, Jones and his team also debuted the bi-level Night Club 101 in the East Village. Most recently, that space was home to music venue Bakers Falls, but before that, it was the longtime home of the legendary Pyramid Club. 133 Essex Street; 101 Avenue A
Midtown West: Datz Deli started with a humble beginning as a corner store in Hollis, Queens, making souped-up bodega food. In particular, its patties helped them get on track to shortly make $1 million, and expand with subsequent locations. The latest is now open in Midtown. 245 W. 46th Street, near Eighth Avenue
February 13
Bayside: Seoul-based Korean soup restaurant Okdongsik opened its second-ever New York location in Queens on Thursday, January 30 through Hand Hospitality. The short and simple menu focuses on dweji-gomtang, a pork-based broth with rice, cabbage kimchi, and a salty-spicy seasoning; along with mando, seafood cakes, and chilled pork. The first American location is found in Manhattan. 43-13 Bell Boulevard, between 43rd Avenue and Northern Boulevard
Dumbo: American bistro Colonie opened a new restaurant focused on French bistro fare with Scandinavian touches: Hildur debuted on Thursday, February 13. The cozy food menu includes a take on au poivre with Swedish meatballs, pommes puree, and shoestring fries, and the Swedish Princess cake. 5 Front Street, near Old Fulton Street
Greenpoint: The Brooklyn pizza pop-up from the owner of Clinton Hill cafe Calyer, Diamond Slice, opened its full-on restaurant on Wednesday, February 12. Owner and chef Peter Chrostowski is making pies and slices like Caesar salad, burrata and pepperoni, spinach and ricotta, and Buffalo chicken; along with focaccia sandwiches and salads. Sit-down seating is available. 70 Diamond Street, near Nassau Avenue
Koreatown: Restaurant group the Hospitality Department opened a new dessert shop, Sweet Graffiti, on Tuesday, February 11. Pastry chef Romina Peixoto and the team are focusing on artsy international sweets like stuffed chocolate bars, pad Thai cookies, and frozen doughnut-shaped desserts. 51 W. 32nd Street, at Broadway
Long Island City: Boston Japanese restaurant Matsunori Handroll Bar expanded into Queens with its first New York location on Sunday, February 9. Eater Boston highlights its hand roll options such as the crab legs and A5-grade wagyu. 27-05 Thomson Avenue, between Jackson Avenue, and 44th Drive
Lower East Side: Cactus Wren opened on Wednesday, February 12 with “regional Southwestern cuisine and French techniques.” In practice, that appears to mean a seafood-heavy menu spanning langoustine beignet to lobster pot pie and shrimp toast. The team brings experience from the Michelin-starred 63 Clinton. 98 Rivington Street, at Ludlow Street
Midtown: Kerala native chef Regi Mathew opened his first American restaurant in New York, Chatti, focusing on toddy cafe culture, on Wednesday, February 12. This means South Indian dishes like beef fries, prawn pouches, loads of seafoods, and tropical-tinged cocktails. 252 W. 37th Street, near Eighth Avenue
Times Square: New York’s only revolving restaurant is back spinning with the View, revamped by Danny Meyer and the Rockwell Group design firm. Head up more than 40 flights inside the Times Square Marquis to a bi-level space split between the bar and a downstairs restaurant. 1535 Broadway, at West 45th Street
Tribeca: In 2023, HŪSO, a luxury dining spot inside Marky’s Caviar on the Upper East Side, closed following a fire. Now, the spot, led by Top Chef season 19 winner Buddha Lo has relocated, inside the caviar company’s new retail shop. “The original HŪSO operated as a 14-seat, caviar-focused tasting menu restaurant. The new Huso opening in Tribeca will be a 28-seat, two-level restaurant, which will offer an innovative 12-course tasting menu,” per a spokesperson. 323A Greenwich Street, at Duane Street
Williamsburg: Midtown Sichuan restaurant Chili expanded with a new Chinese restaurant, Meili, on Wednesday, February 12. The team focuses on Sichuan dishes, like the Mr. and Mrs. Smith with chile-and-peanut-sauced sliced beef and tripe; mapo lobster; tea-smoked duck with sticky rice; and the red-style Chongqing fish stew; plus cocktails. 160 North 12th Street, between Bedford and Berry streets
February 6
Bushwick: The team behind Brooklyn music venue and bar Cafe Erzulie opened a new hi-fi bar across the street last month. Damballa debuted on Friday, January 24 with cocktails, music from the Montreal company Automatic Audio (featuring wooden cabinets made from trees sourced from British Columbia), and snacks. The name stems from the Haitian voodoo Loa spirit. 895 Broadway between Belvidere Street and Arion Place
Carroll Gardens: When news first spread that Ugly Baby — the celebrated, spicy Carroll Gardens Thai restaurant — would close at the end of last year, mayhem ensued as fans rushed for final tastes. But there’s good news: Ugly Baby’s chef Sirichai Sreparplarn has passed the storefront on to three former employees. On Friday, January 31, they opened a new Thai restaurant, Hungry Thirsty. 407 Smith Street, at Fourth Street
East Village: For all its expansion on grocery store shelves, 2019 was when Momofuku last opened a new restaurant in New York — the city where the brand was born. But even as its places have closed — rule-bending Ssäm Bar and two-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant Ko both shuttered — Momofuku Group wasn’t done. On Thursday, February 6, they debut the casual, a la carte Caribbean Bar Kabawa; A prix fixe version of Kabawa with dining room seating will roll out in mid-March. Paul Carmichael is steering options that include raw bar picks, Caribbean patties, and drinks accented by rums, with daiquiris in the limelight. 8 Extra Place, at East First Street
East Williamsburg: Lulla’s Bakery, a new bakery opened on Tuesday, January 28, around the corner from the team’s first restaurant Casa Ora, which opened in 2019, also with a Venezuelan focus. The pastry case is stuffed with savory items including cachito and mandoca. Unlike a lot of new bakeries, it has lots of seating, and it’s primed for work meetings. By night, the team plans to serve wine and bites. 169 Graham Avenue, at Meserole Street
Flatiron: Vinyl Steakhouse expanded with an Italian chophouse restaurant this week in the same neighborhood. Vinile opened on Monday, February 3, serving a steakhouse-style menu led by executive chef Joseph Roperti. The menu includes dry-aged steaks, chicken Parm, a vegan rib-eye, and, interestingly, sushi. Per the name, the restaurant will also play records. 31 West 17th Street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues
Gowanus: Liar Liar is a new natural wine bar with bites. Mateo Simo, who owns Bad Luck Bar in Bed-Stuy, is a partner in Liar Liar, alongside Gabi Gimson who worked for natural wine importer, Steven Graf Imports, Andrew Goss, a DJ, and bartender Reed Yarber. Accessibility is front of mind for the owners, who hope to solidify Liar Liar as a neighborhood watering hole. By that extension: a daily happy hour bottle priced at $30 is offered. The space was previously a restaurant called Victor and before that, Freek’s Mil. 285 Nevins Street, at Sackett Street
Grand Central: James Beard Awards semifinalist for Outstanding Hospitality chef Melba Wilson opened a new location of her Harlem Southern comfort food restaurant, Melba’s, in Manhattan on Tuesday, February 4. The new Melba’s Grand Central is inside Grand Central Terminal’s lower level — the small 500-square-foot space will offer takeout only, serving up dishes like fried chicken and eggnog waffles, and smothered pork chops. This is Wilson’s third overall location, including one in the Prudential Center in New Jersey. The Harlem restaurant’s famous visitors include Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. 89 East 42nd Street between Park and Lexington avenues
Koreatown: Jeong Yuk Jeom, a high-end Korean barbecue restaurant from Los Angeles, opened in New York this week on Thursday, February 6. The menu focuses on fancier cuts of beer, like large dry-aged tomahawk steaks and prime boneless short ribs, available for DIY grilling. 44 West 32nd Street, Unit 2, near Broadway
Times Square: The last time Guy Fieri opened a restaurant in Manhattan it became the subject of an infamous no-star New York Times review that went viral. In 2017, Guy’s American Kitchen & Bar closed in Times Square. Aside from a short-lived ghost kitchen, Fieri hadn’t tried opening another restaurant in New York City — until now. Last weekend, Fieri returned to Times Square with Chicken Guy! Eater stopped by on opening day for a scene report. 138 W. 42nd Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue
Long Island City: Astoria’s French baked goods-slinger Somedays Bakery expanded with its second location on Friday, January 31. On deck are croissants, laminated lattices, cookies, and more, as well as coffee. There are plans to expand into Bay Terrace, Queens; Montclair, New Jersey, and elsewhere. 4630 Center Boulevard, between 46th and 47th avenues
Financial District The team behind cocktail bar inside-a-subway-station La Noxe opened a new bar that operates next to Trinity Church last month. La Noxe Trinity debuted on Thursday, January 30, with a dress code, cocktails, spirits, and New American food. Reservations can be booked online, but there is room for walk-ins. 111 Broadway, near Thames Street
Nomad: Druze food stand Taboonia opened its first physical location in Manhattan on Friday, January 31. The restaurant is known for its pitas and hummus. It had started as a food stand in New Jersey in the fall of 2024 and expanded with a stall inside the New York Grand Bazaar, an Upper West Side flea market. 5832 Sixth Avenue, at West 29th Street
West Village: Following West Village hits Dame and Lord’s, husband-wife duo Patricia Howard and chef Ed Szymanski opened their third restaurant in the neighborhood, Crevette on Tuesday, February 4. Crevette will be their biggest restaurant, both in square footage and ambition, looking to the South of France and beyond in a pastel dining room. Think skewers with octopus; Spanish tortilla with peekytoe crab; an old Venetian recipe for fresh pasta with a cassopipa with scallops, and the restaurant’s take on bouillabaisse. 10 Downing Street, at Sixth Avenue
Williamsburg: Ren opened on Thursday, February 6, a modern Sichuan restaurant, with a seasonal menu and a focus on sustainability (the name means “harvest”). Owner Jayne He worked at restaurants like Cafe China and Birds of a Feather, before transitioning to the fashion industry, and has now returned to hospitality. 623 Grand Street, at Leonard Street
