{"id":48896,"date":"2025-07-08T14:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48896\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:27:08","slug":"third-times-the-charm-restaurant-is-opening-in-red-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/48896\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Time\u2019s the Charm Restaurant Is Opening in Red Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Third Time\u2019s the Charm<\/a> is not only the name of a new restaurant opening in Red Hook: It is also the story of Chris Milazzo, a so-called \u201crecovering lawyer,\u201d who launched the pizza pop-up Bad Cholesterol<\/a> a couple of years ago, and became a fixture at Talea taproom. He\u2019s now on his third act, opening an actual restaurant, targeting a September opening. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thinking of Charm as a supper club for the rest of us,\u201d Milazzo said in a press release. \u201cNo membership fees. No celebs. Just a place to tuck in, put your elbows up, and befriend the bartenders.\u201d Sourdough pizza will, of course, continue to play a role, but the menu will also veer into other childhood favorites, like a riff on the Bloomin\u2019 Onion and chicken nuggets. Third Time\u2019s the Charm<\/a> is joined by partner Sean Klim (who was in the kitchen at Bad Cholesterol<\/a>) and chef Sam Savage (who also worked on the pop-up). It replaces what was operator Erin Norris\u2019 longtime restaurant Grindhaus<\/a>, there since 2013, and which had more recently rebranded to OurHaus<\/a>, at 275 Van Brunt Street, near Visitation Place, in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

This Williamsburg diner will be torn down <\/p>\n

Shame on Williamsburg developer Yoel Schwimmer, who will tear down the last-of-its-kind diner storefront at 221 Wythe Avenue, in the process of turning the lot into a mixed-use building, Crain\u2019s New York<\/a> reports. It\u2019s a fate this space has long been waiting for. What was once Wythe Diner has been vacant for years, but it was an architectural feat with its standalone structure in a neighborhood dominated by a sea of new towers. We held out hope that another restaurant would eventually reopen there: From 1997 until 2010, it was a restaurant called Relish. In 2011, Cafe de La Esquina opened<\/a> before shutting in 2018. Then, as these things go, Blank Street Coffee ran an outdoor coffee cart in the backyard in 2020. In 2023, lights were turned on again by a limited-run activation by Chanel<\/a>, symbolizing the way the neighborhood is getting gentrified into a luxury district.<\/p>\n

Large dumpling chain lands in Manhattan<\/p>\n

Originating in China, with 800 locations abroad, Dumpling Xi<\/a> has added a second location in New York, following its debut in Flushing a couple of months ago. Now, Dumpling Xi \u2014 which originated in Hegang in 2002 \u2014 has opened at 71 Fourth Avenue, at East 10th Street, in the East Village. A menu includes dumplings with fillings like zucchini-egg-fried-shrimp, shrimp-fish-roe, and pork-celery.<\/p>\n

When Soeun, the SoHo macrobiotic restaurant, closed in 2019 after first opening in 1971, it prompted public outcry<\/a>. Following the closing of Lola Taverna, the most recent tenant in the space, a tacky Greek clubstaurant, actress Chlo\u00eb Sevigny posted on Instagram stories this week asking, \u201cIf anyone had a lifeline to bring back Soeun.\u201d For what it\u2019s worth, there\u2019s still a Soeun in the East Village, but it\u2019s not the same.<\/p>\n