Danny Meyer’s shuttered Maialino is finally coming back. After closing back at the beginning of the pandemic and a 10-month wine bar pop-up stint, the Roman restaurant is reopening in Gramercy Park at 67 Irving Place, near East 18th Street, in 2027.
Maialino opened under Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group in 2009 inside the Gramercy Park Hotel, becoming known for its ricotta pancakes and cacio e pepe. However, the restaurant had to close at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 because the hotel shut down. Then the team reopened the restaurant as a wine bar, Maialino (vicino) at the Redbury Hotel from October 2022 to August 2023.
Meyer was potentially working on reopening the restaurant back inside the returning Gramercy Park Hotel again but that didn’t pan out. Maialino’s future home is a current office building that is being turned into apartments.
Meyer’s short-lived D.C. offshoot Maialino Mare also closed at the dawn of the pandemic but never resurfaced.
Erewhon’s smoothies are in NYC right now
The fancypants smoothies from high-end LA grocery store Erewhon’s smoothies are now available for third-party deliveries in Manhattan, starting today, Thursday, November 20.
It’s part of the trendy grocer’s forthcoming first-ever East Coast juice bar location inside of private members club Kith Ivy (yes, from the street apparel brand). While only members of said-club can buy in-person juices when it opens, Erewhon is doing deliveries for the public.
The menu includes the strawberry glaze skin smoothie — formerly named after Hailey Bieber — with collagen peptides and sea moss gel ($24); the Malibu mango smoothie ($25.25); the coconut cloud smoothie ($24); and vanilla matcha smoothie ($26). The deliveries can be ordered through Uber Eats and Postmates within a one-mile delivery radius from the West Village address at 120 Leroy Street at Greenwich Street.
South Asian-Afro-Caribbean hot dogs alert
Pervaiz Shallwani of hot dog pop-up Chaat Dog is teaming up with Top Chef winner Tristen Epps for season 22 to whip up South Asian and Afro-Caribbean-styled hot dogs.
The menu includes a lamb dog with grilled scallion aioli, jerk mushrooms, ketchup, and crust shallots; a beef dog with kitfo and cracklin’ injera; Chaat Dog’s signature OG Chat Dog; and a butter chicken sausage iteration. The pop-up takes place on Friday, November 21, at Time Out Market in Dumbo, starting at 11 a.m. until everything is sold out.
New Asian dining and community hub opens in Manhattan
A multifaceted, four-story pan-Asian cultural hub featuring dining, drinking, and more is set to arrive in Midtown this week. Hue House is opening at 56 East 41st Street, between Madison and Park avenues, on Friday, November 21, from the team behind Taiwanese restaurant Gulp and returning cocktail bar 929.
The first two floors will debut first. The first level will include the new third location of Gulp. The team is also reopening their shuttered Long Island City cocktail bar 929, which will keep its retro vibes and Mandarin and Cantonese pop soundtrack.
The second floor will house a new bistro, Traveler, which will take its cues from Asian pop culture, with vending machine cocktails. Chef Michael Hsu, who has worked at places like Sydney restaurant Quay, is overseeing all the food. And beverage director Chaoyi Chen already oversees the team’s Long Island City bar 56709; she had co-founded Taipei cocktail bar Pawn Bar.
Opening later will be the third-floor cafe and retail shop Apt.Hue, serving drinks like osmanthus oolong latte and gardenia yunnan pour-overs.
Traveler. Hue House/Official