A bold wine list in Chinatown, croissant mash-ups in NoHo, and a smorgasbord of A-grade chef collabs. Get out your datebook, New Yorkers: The MICHELIN Guide has plans for you.
High tea on a Two-MICHELIN-key hotel rooftop
Fouquet’s NY, the glamorous Two-MICHELIN-key hotel in Tribeca, will open its rooftop terrace for public reservations for the first time as part of their High Iced Tea experience, an afternoon tea featuring tea sandwiches, desserts, and iced teas, all served on pink and pistachio linens from Italian lifestyle brand La DoubleJ. Reservations for the fixed price seating are available on Resy.
Global wines at Lei in Chinatown
Annie Shi, part of the team behind MICHELIN favorites King and Jupiter, opened Lei this month in Chinatown, a wine bar that reflects her Chinese American heritage and longtime love of wine. The wine list straddles classic regions and exotic producers, including bottles from Spain, Greece, and China. Food is from Patty Lee, an alum of Mission Chinese Food, and includes sesame shao bing flatbread and steamed cockles.
Croissant collabs at Raf’s
Mole Negra and BEC ramen croissants are among the dream-come-true pastry drops at Raf’s this summer. The bakery and restaurant’s Croissant Club features a different chef collab each week, highlighting flavors from around the world. Sobre Masa, the Brooklyn Bib Gourmand, worked up an orange blossom Pain au Chocolat. The mole spin is from Isabel Coss of DC’s Pascual, and the bacon, egg, and cheese ramen mash-up is from Ramen by Ra.
A cool kid supper club at Heroes
Manhattan tastemaker Ariel Arce is setting up her Niche Niche supper club at her restaurant Heroes, the buzzy new SoHo spot with a killer wine list. Each Tuesday will see a themed, family-style menu crafted by the in-house team, along with a promise of free-flowing wines. Reservations are available on OpenTable.
A new steakhouse perfect for commuters
The stretch of Midtown by Penn Station has long left savvy diners wanting. Enter The Dynamo Room from Sunday Hospitality, the group behind Sunday in Brooklyn and the bar and restaurant program at the Hotel Chelsea (One MICHELIN Key). The new steakhouse and raw bar is now open in the PENN 2 tower, offering an extravagant menu that includes lobster ravioli and a 40-ounce tomahawk.
New Mexico-City style tacos from the founder of Cosme
Santo Taco, a new counter-service taquería, is now open in Nolita. From Santiago Perez of Mexican food royalty – he debuted the Flatiron groundbreaker Cosme and founded the Casamata Group alongside Pujol’s (Two MICHELIN Stars) Chef Enrique Olvera – the tiny spot screams Mexico City, with carnitas, carne asada, and steak trompo among its small menu.
Hotel Chelsea’s new Japanese restaurant
The legendary Hotel Chelsea (One MICHELIN Key) has a new restaurant, Teruko, a below-ground Japanese offering styled with a salvaged Tokyo backbar and asymmetric wabi-sabi design. Executive Chef Tadashi Ono along with Sunday Hospitality and partner Charles Seich are in charge of a menu that includes a dover sole karaage and a robata grilled oazaki wagyu, plus a sushi list from Head Sushi Chef Hideaki Watanabe.
Joomak’s four-course dessert collab series
Joomak, the West Village recreation of Chef Jiho Kim’s formerly MICHELIN-Starred Joomak Banjum, is hosting a dessert collab series with pastry chefs from across the city. Each Sunday in June will feature a new visitor, including Celia Lee of Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare (Two MICHELIN Stars) and Shaun Velez of Daniel (One MICHELIN Star), offering up a four-course menu in concert with Chef Kim.
Hero image: Brin Hanson / High Iced Tea with La DoubleJ
