{"id":429539,"date":"2025-12-06T20:40:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/429539\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:40:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:40:37","slug":"a-new-100-gluten-free-restaurant-on-canal-street-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/429539\/","title":{"rendered":"A New 100% Gluten-Free Restaurant on Canal Street in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Yorkers with celiac disease are about to get a rare thing in this city: a full restaurant where everything is safe to eat\u2014no cross-contamination caveats, no worries about fryer oil and no ingredient detective work necessary. KIMMI<\/a>, the latest project from the team behind the much-missed Tiger Lily Kitchen and TLK, opened last week at 125 Canal Street, right where the Lower East Side<\/a> meets Chinatown<\/a> near the Manhattan Bridge.<\/p>\n

The 47-seat spot is entirely gluten-free\u2014right down to sourcing ingredients from gluten-free facilities\u2014while leaning into flavors from across Asia and its neighborhood surroundings. That means dishes like grilled head-on prawns in chili tomato sauce with Thai basil oil, roasted cauliflower dressed in miso aji amarillo and a vermicelli bowl with baby bok choy, snap peas and a chili-ginger-cilantro sauce. Heartier plates include a pan-seared market fish with green chili garlic sauce, grilled pork belly skewers finished with green papaya chutney and a five-spice braised short rib set over miso sweet potato pur\u00e9e and crisped Chinese broccoli.<\/p>\n

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The drinks list is just as low-key as it is flavor-forward. Wine director Olivier Filograsso keeps things tight with natural and sustainable wines<\/a> by the glass (starting at $13) or bottle. Cocktails lean low-ABV, made with vermouths, aperitifs and soju: try the Orient Express with cardamom-infused Method dry vermouth and Thai tea coconut cream or the Seoul Crusher with mango soju and lime. On colder nights, a warm Farmyard Toddy spikes Pineau des Charentes with chamomile, honey and cloves.<\/p>\n

Inside, KIMMI is compact but inviting, with big windows framing the bridge, wooden banquettes, a terracotta-tiled bar base topped with warm wood and a matcha-green floor. Dinner service runs Wednesday through Sunday, from 5pm through 11pm, with both walk-ins and Resy bookings available.<\/p>\n

KIMMI also marks a homecoming for co-founder Michelle Morgan, who grew up in Chinatown a few blocks away. Her original Tiger Lily Kitchen, launched as a pandemic delivery project before evolving into full-service TLK, had a following devoted to its Hong Kong-influenced comfort cooking before it closed back in 2024 due to building demolition. Now, Morgan and partner John O\u2019Brien are back with a restaurant that feels like a natural next chapter\u2014and happens to be a major win for gluten-free diners citywide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers with celiac disease are about to get a rare thing in this city: a full restaurant…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":429540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,10633,405,403,10634,5226,5225,5228,5227,988,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-429539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-categories-restaurants","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-eating","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-restaurants","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115674561606575276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429539","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=429539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}