A new Georgian brunch menu, Thai chicken finger combo meals, and a pair of A-list chefs collaborating on a knockout fish pie. Get out your calendars, New Yorkers: The MICHELIN Guide has plans for you.
Thai chicken finger combo meals from the team behind Thai Diner and Uncle Boons
Ann Redding and Matt Danzer, the chef-owners behind Thai Diner (Bib Gourmand) and Uncle Boons, the legendary One-MICHELIN-Star restaurant that closed over the pandemic, are behind Mommy Pai, a new Nolita spot specializing in Thai chicken fingers. Sets of grilled or fried fingers come in flavors like lemongrass and muay thai – with garlic, soy, fish sauce, and coriander – and can arrive as a combo alongside a side and a tropical drink.
A showstopping collab from the kitchens of Restaurant Yuu and Lysée
Eunji Lee of Lysée, one of the city’s most celebrated pastry chefs, will join Yuu Shimano, the executive chef and owner of Restaurant Yuu (One MICHELIN Star), for a one-night-only tasting menu collaboration on August 21. The centerpiece of the meal – set to blend the French training and Korean and Japanese heritage of the chefs – will be a savory pie filled with Korean abalone and Japanese fluke.
A new Georgian favorite goes big on brunch
What’s in a full Georgian breakfast? Laliko, one of the newest additions to MICHELIN's New York City selection, has the whole spread: sunny-side-up eggs, tomato-cucumber salad, kebab balls, and lobio – a kidney bean and walnut stew – plus shares of fresh Georgian bread and cheese. The just-launched brunch menu from the West Village restaurant also includes a cheesy cornmeal flatbread called chvishtari and lali pies, inspired by the owner’s grandmother.
A tropical Afro-Caribbean ode opens in Midtown
Chef Rúnar Pierre Heriveaux, who headed up ÓX (One MICHELIN Star, MICHELIN Green Star) in Reykjavík, is back stateside at LÉLE, a new Afro-Caribbean spot in Midtown. The space is lush, bedecked in velvet and tropical motifs, and the menu is inspired by Pierre Heriveaux’s Haitian background. Highlights include a hot honey poussin suya and grilled coco and cassava root bread.
A lobster benedict hand roll at Nami Nori’s new brunch
To take their signature hand rolls into the world of weekend brunch, Nami Nori, the Bib Gourmand temaki in the West Village and Williamsburg, thought up some eye-popping mash-ups. In the lobster benedict temaki, butter-poached lobster, Jidori egg and Koji hollandaise are wrapped up in a crunchy nori shell. In an okonomiyaki pancake, there’s salmon, bacon, scallion and a wasabi crème fraîche.
Lunch service now on offer at One-Star Shota Omakase
Shota Omakase, the elegant One-MICHELIN-Star spot in Williamsburg, will offer its omakase service for lunch on Saturdays beginning on August 23. The two seatings, which include 10 pieces of nigiri and one hand roll, are an ideal – and more economical – introduction to the work of chef/owner Cheng Lin, who is meticulous about sourcing the restaurant’s ingredients, like the rice he buys from a small farm in the mountain hot springs city of Gero.
Hero image: Alex Muccilli / Mommy Pai
