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Bar Benno
Now that it’s time to start reopening his eating places within the Evelyn Resort in NoMad, the chef Jonathan Benno and his companions determined to do greater than merely flip the important thing. Within the area that was Leonelli Restaurant and Bar, they’ve pivoted from Italian to French, with the bar, tables and an open kitchen devoted to bistro fare, and adjusted the title to Bar Benno. The elegant flagship Benno, which has three stars from The New York Times, behind the area won’t change, besides to characteristic extra seafood when it’s prepared for diners in a month or so. However now, fitted with an enormous again bar and a U-shaped counter with seating, the brand new spot, known as Bar Benno, will characteristic a chilly seafood choice, and hors d’oeuvres like escargots, egg in a potato crust, pâté de campagne, and Basque-style tripe on its basic menu. Most important programs embrace rotisserie rooster, steak au poivre and bourride, a wealthy Provençal seafood stew hardly ever seen on New York menus. Fries will come alongside steamed mussels, a French dip sandwich and steak tartare. From 5 to 7 p.m., with aperitifs and cocktails, there shall be savories like deviled eggs with caviar, salmon rillettes, white anchovies with bread and butter, and fried pig’s trotter with sauce gribiche. “I didn’t really feel it was sufficient simply to reopen as we have been earlier than,” Mr. Benno stated. “I’ve been cooking French most of my complete profession, so I’m very snug with this. Thankfully, we didn’t must do a giant renovation.” Mr. Benno additionally stated that it was tough for Leonelli Restaurant and Bar, an Italian taverna, to ascertain its personal character. However, he stated, providing bistro fare in an area that’s one thing of a prelude to the Benno eating room and that leans towards France made extra sense. A style of Italy with flatbread pizzas, breads and pastries stays obtainable in Leonelli Bakery within the entrance of the constructing. (Opens Friday)
7 East twenty seventh Road, 212-451-9557, bennorestaurant.com.
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Zabb PuTawn
Therdtus (Tony) Rittaprom has owned PuTawn, a Thai restaurant on the Higher East Facet, with Chanchai (Charles) Khampinchai, since 2016. And now, they’ve renamed the restaurant and turned it right into a targeted Northern Thai spot with a menu of 14 classes. The choices incorporate many dishes from Zabb Elee in Jackson Heights, Queens, which Mr. Rittaprom owned and the place he served as chef from 2010 to 2015. (An East Village department of Zabb Elee was open for a part of that point.) Among the many selections are naem gradook moo (deep-fried fermented pork ribs cured with sticky rice), larb moo kua (pork, liver, pores and skin and lengthy peppers), and yum pu dong (blue crab in fish sauce with herbs, lime and chiles). The huge menu consists of classes like papaya salads (seven of them), larb, spicy salads, grilled meat salads, 5 noodle soups (along with a couple of milky spicy soups), and 17 dishes underneath the heading of pad and rad kow (“from the wok and over rice dishes”). They settle for reservations for his or her 28 seats.
1584 First Avenue (83rd Road), 212-988-8800, zabbputawn.com.
Pokeworks of Hudson Yards
This department of Pokeworks, a sequence of dozens of quick-serve poke spots in 19 states, Canada and Mexico, is on the bottom ground of an workplace constructing adjoining to Hudson Yards and doesn’t have outside seating. The restaurant, opened by Albert Yeh, affords set mixtures for Hawaiian-inspired poke bowls, and the choice of designing your individual as a bowl, a burrito or a salad.
330 West thirty fourth Road, 917-261-6361, pokeworks.com. (verify: 815-883-1852)
The Beer Storage
After opening this brewpub in a former Park Slope, Brooklyn, garage a year ago, Marina Charny and Oleg Kaziev, the house owners, have branched into Manhattan. However, not like the unique location, this outpost isn’t in a former storage. There are 24 craft beers on faucet on a rotating menu. On the meals aspect, there are wings, nachos, pizza and a burger.
118 Christopher Road (Bedford Road), 646-490-4301, beergarageny.com.
