{"id":289568,"date":"2025-10-09T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289568\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:37:14","slug":"ensenada-in-williamsburg-is-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/289568\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensenada in Williamsburg Is Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Williamsburg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ensenadanyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ensenada<\/a> (168 Borinquen Place, at South Second Street) \u2014 the Mexican seafood spot from co-owner Bryce David with chef Luis Herrera and partner Ahmet Erkaya \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/greenpointers.com\/2025\/10\/09\/ensenada-and-ritas-both-closing-this-month\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will close<\/a> on October 26, citing a dip in sales and rising operating costs. The team stressed that rent wasn\u2019t the issue, but rather a tough financial climate, and plans to host a farewell gathering after the final service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">When it debuted in 2022,<a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2022\/11\/22\/23471572\/best-tacos-fish-cosme-ensenada-mexican-review-nyc-restaurants?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Eater<\/a> praised Ensenada\u2019s seafood-focused menu, especially the tempura-fried fish tacos and the al pastor branzino tacos layered with pineapple butter, calling them standouts worth seeking out.<\/p>\n<p>NYC changeups for World\u2019s 50 Best Bars<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworlds50best.com\/bars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The World\u2019s 50 Best Bars<\/a> for 2025, announced Wednesday, October 8, in Hong Kong, welcomed Greenwich Village\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2024\/1\/15\/24038885\/sip-and-guzzle-opening-greenwich-village-tokyo-alinea-employees-only\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-part standout<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipandguzzlenyc.com\/menus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sip &amp; Guzzle<\/a> to the coveted group (No. 39). The nearly two-year-old project from alums of Angel\u2019s Share, Employees Only, and Alinea is a take on Tokyo cocktail destination <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworlds50best.com\/bars\/the-list\/the-sg-club.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the SG Club<\/a>. Three other NYC bars reappeared on the global list this year: East Village\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superbuenonyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Superbueno<\/a> made a solid jump from No. 27 to No. 12; Lower East Side\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/doublechickenplease.com\/?srsltid=AfmBOopUJJsyBTNCZlL_E6ocb4uQn-3gkmCb1xl_5pPgMIUG-AmvMQ_m\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Double Chicken Please<\/a> fell from No. 14 to No. 41; and FiDi\u2019s sky-high bar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overstory-nyc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overstory<\/a> from the late James Kent dropped dramatically, from No. 15 to No. 46. \u2013T.P.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Starting today, Thursday, October 9, Crown Shy (70 Pine Street at Pearl Street) will serve weekday lunch from noon to 2 p.m., with executive chef Jassimran Singh offering dishes like sourdough kulcha baked in a tandoor and pork Milanese with curry bearnaise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williamsburg\u2019s Ensenada (168 Borinquen Place, at South Second Street) \u2014 the Mexican seafood spot from co-owner Bryce David&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":289569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4991,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-289568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-intel","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115344955526755921","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}