Thomas Carter and Ignacio Mattos, the team behind the critically acclaimed Estela on Houston street, is already having a busy year. They’re in the midst of preparations to open a branch at the new Metropolitan Museum outpost, Met Breuer, and just opened the doors of their latest project – Cafe Altro Paradiso.
The original Estela made a name for itself by taking the traditional tapas bar formula and tweaking it slightly, increasing the size of the dishes to a just-big-enough-to-share size. The new restaurant, which the team claims will be a largely traditional Italian cafe, has big shoes to fill – but guests can expect that there will be some fresh ideas in play on the menu of pasta dishes, Italian wines and seafood.
Cafe Altro Paradiso is located at 234 Spring street. They are taking reservations and accepting walk-ins beginning this week
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Dominique Ansel’s after hours tasting menu at his West Village bakery will focus on highlighting a century of different “American Dreams.” Tickets go on sale Friday, February 19th and Dominique Ansel Kitchen will have seatings through the month of March. The meal costs $85 with an additional $45 for cocktail pairings and $1 for a slice of pizza.
Danny Meyer may have been the first to really make headlines by eliminating tipping, but Andrew Tarlow has now gone a step further by taking on the anti-tipping movement’s PR as well. Marlow recently pitched a standard sign which he believes all gratuity free restaurants should display in their windows in order to help retrain guests who have spent their whole lives living in a world of tips.
After a brief stint with a second location in Greenwich village last year which closed after six months, the 7 year-old Bark Hot Dogs will officially close up shop completely on February 7th. Bark was a Park Slope standby for many years, and owner Joshua Sharkey had previously talked about plans to open a different Manhattan location in a new neighborhood. That now seems unlikely, although Sharkey has been vague on the exact reasons for closure, stating only that (unlike the Greenwich Village location), rent was not the primary factor.
2016 is already shaping up to be the year of exciting food halls, with The Pennsy opening to fanfare and Brooklyn Navy Yard expected later this year. Now, we have another exciting announcement regarding the latter: the New York icon Russ & Daughters will be opening a location in the 60,000-square-foot Navy Yard space. The team says this location will be focused on fast casual breakfast and lunch, and they plan to increase bakery production with classic New York and Jewish baked goods like bialys, babka, challah and knishes.
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