South Beach, Miami Beach Opened Sept. 19
Japanese cocktail bar with small plates · $$$$
The h.wood Group (Delilah, The Nice Guy)
A 12-seat bar up on a third floor, found by looking for the stone lion. The ice is carved into diamonds, the music is on vinyl, and there’s wagyu katsu in milk bread for anyone who came for dinner.
1691 Michigan Ave., third floor
South Beach, Miami Beach Opens in October
Tokyo-style Neapolitan pizza · $$
Bungo Kaneko of Tokyo’s Savoy, with Jess Varughese
A Tokyo pizzaiolo’s take on Neapolitan pizza, off Lincoln Road: dough fermented for more than 30 hours and just seven pies on the menu. It’s walk-in only, so plan your hunger accordingly.
1680 Meridian Ave.
Walk-in only Instagram
South Beach, Miami Beach Opens this fall
Supper club and cocktail bar · $$$
Chef Michelle Bernstein and bartender Naren Young, with David Martinez and Dan Binkiewicz
Michelle Bernstein cooks and Naren Young, who once ran Dante in New York, mixes, six steps down below the Townhouse Hotel. There will be red banquettes and a martini cart, which is really all a basement needs.
Townhouse Hotel, 150 20th St.
Coconut Grove, Miami Opened Sept. 19
Coastal Italian, wood-fire grill · $$$$
Thomas Angelo and culinary director Daniel Ganem (Gioia Hospitality, the team behind Daniel’s)
A waterfront Italian dining room on Grove Isle, with handmade pasta, crudo and a salt-crusted branzino made for sharing with the table and the bay. The steak comes by the pound, so bring friends or an appetite.
4 Grove Isle Drive
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Wynwood, Miami Opened Sept. 11
Contemporary American
Chef Coton Stine
Coton Stine’s shared-plates restaurant opened in Wynwood before its Delray Beach sibling. Think miso Ora King salmon, gochujang shrimp and braised short rib, with a 5 p.m. happy hour for people who like to eat early.
310 N.W. 24th St.
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Downtown, Miami Opened Sept. 3
Saigon-style phở · $$
Chef Tam Pham and sommelier Harrison Ramhofer, from the team behind Tâm Tâm
The Tâm Tâm crew’s quieter sibling: a Saigon noodle shop with a spice-forward southern phở, bánh xèo and a whole fried fish to wrap in lettuce. Most tables are kept for walk-ins, so “no availability” online is more of a dare than a no.
270 E. Flagler St.
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Wynwood, Miami Opened Sept. 1
Southern European
Liz Mattos and Eduardo Antunes, with chefs Junior Santos and Caio Ottoboni
A Wynwood room built for long dinners, cooking its way across Italy, Spain and the south of France. Order the tuna au poivre with thin fries and the gnocco fritto piled with Florida blue crab.
137 N.W. 26th St.
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Little River, Miami Opened Aug. 11
Mexican taquería and tortilla factory · $
Chef Steve Santana
After eight years on Ocean Terrace, Steve Santana moved his taquería across the bridge into the building where he already makes the tortillas. It’s counter service, with blue corn tortillas warm off the machine and masa by the pound if you want to try it at home.
8246 N.E. Second Ave.
Upper Buena Vista, Miami Opened in August
Italian osteria and wine bar · $$$
Andrea Fraquelli and chef Giulio Rossi (Fraquelli Hospitality, the team behind Cotoletta)
The Cotoletta people have opened a dark-pink osteria with a handwritten menu of fresh pasta, lasagna and a proper cotoletta alla milanese. You book by calling a phone number, which their Instagram calls “reservations like it’s 1999.”
5010 N.E. Second Ave.
Coconut Grove, Miami Opened July 22
Greek
Chef Emmanouil “Manoli” Aslanoglou
Emmanouil Aslanoglou, who has cooked at Arzak and Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, put his own name on this Grove taverna. Get the makarounes, a pasta from his childhood that he makes with yogurt instead of water, and save room for the dessert trolley.
3540 Main Hwy.
Coral Way, Miami Opened July 10
Omakase sushi · $$$$
Chefs Glen Kotlar and Yoni Matz
Ten seats at a hinoki counter under a wooden “wave” built by KTX ArchiLAB, the Japanese firm’s first project in the U.S. Glen Kotlar serves 17 Edomae courses, and the restaurant’s Instagram devotes whole posts to its rice and its kohada, which is a very good sign.
2296 Coral Way
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Little River, Miami Opens in October
Modern Filipino
From the team behind Sili at 1-800-Lucky
A modern Filipino restaurant from the people behind Sili at 1-800-Lucky, on the stretch of Northeast Second Avenue that keeps getting more interesting. Miami has been short on Filipino cooking for a while.
8222 N.E. Second Ave.
Greenpoint, New York Opened Sept. 24
French-Italian, with a New Orleans accent · $$
Chef Gabriel Borges, formerly of Chez Ma Tante, with Eric Carney of Five Leaves
A New Orleans-born Greenpoint local takes over the old Noble wine bar and cooks what he likes: pommes paillasson, Louisiana crab claws in Cajun butter, grilled pork. The house calls itself “classic, energetic, focused and unruly,” which sounds like a good Thursday.
148 Noble St., Brooklyn
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West Village, New York Opened in September
Seasonal American · $$$
Chef Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park
Daniel Humm puts his own name on a door for the first time, and it’s an à la carte neighborhood place. Market cooking and produce from Magic Farms, in a Pierre Yovanovitch room hung with Francesco Clemente and Rashid Johnson.
435 Hudson St.
Chinatown, New York Opened in September
Mediterranean, with Turkish accents
Chef Mason Lindahl, formerly of Diner and Monkey Bar, with Yasmin Kaytmaz and Tate Jackson
A 48-seat room on Kimlau Square where a Diner alum cooks through his partner’s Turkish upbringing: baked lavash with tomato butter, cockles with sujuk and borlotti beans, sumac chicken, sour cherry pavlova. Black leather booths and a silver-leaf ceiling keep it from feeling like anyone’s grandmother’s house.
1 E. Broadway
West Village, New York Opened Sept. 16
Mexican seafood and natural wine · $$
From the team behind Taqueria Ramirez and Carnitas Ramirez
The Taqueria Ramirez people turn to the sea on Cornelia Street: michelada oysters, a sardine taco fried in lard with chile de árbol, camarones zarandeados and crisp natural wine, all in a room with a dozen bar stools. It’s mostly walk-in, which suits a place built for long afternoons that turn into evenings.
20 Cornelia St.
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West Village, New York Opened Sept. 15
Portuguese · $$$
Chef Nuno Sousa, from the team behind Leitão
The Leitão team’s second place is a Portuguese wine cellar of a room, where the centerpiece is a whole stuffed rooster (galo, hence the name). Start with the razor clams, pick a bottle from the long Portuguese list and stay a while.
142 W. 10th St.
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Cobble Hill, New York Opened Sept. 10
Italian American · $$
Georgia Fulton, 12 years at the Long Island Bar, taking over from Lou Migliaccio
The red-sauce room on Court Street, open since 1930, has a new keeper in Georgia Fulton, who changed as little as she could: red vinyl booths, checkered cloths, rigatoni alla vodka, baked clams and a cheese pie for $27.
238 Court St., Brooklyn
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Upper East Side, New York Opened Sept. 9
Tasting menu, American South and African diaspora · $$$$
Chef Lana Lagomarsini, formerly of Daniel, Gramercy Tavern, Momofuku Ko and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, in her first restaurant
A 12-seat supper club named for Lana Lagomarsini’s grandmother, with a five-course menu that changes with the seasons: collard green potlikker consommé with trout, elk with blackberry jerk and plantain, goose egg pavlova. Two seatings a night, Wednesday to Saturday, and you’ll want to be at one of them.
1261 Park Ave.
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Harlem, New York Opened Sept. 6
Senegalese steakhouse
The family behind Africa Kine, a Harlem Senegalese institution for more than 30 years
Africa Kine, which has fed Harlem thiebou djen for three decades, opens a dressier second home back on 116th Street, where it started. Think steak and mac and cheese in cast iron, tufted banquettes and low lights, Tuesday to Sunday from 5 p.m.
205 W. 116th St.
Greenpoint, New York Opened Sept. 4
Texas barbecue · $$
Pitmasters Jonny White of Goldee’s and Chuck Charnichart of Barbs B Q
Two Texas pitmasters, one from Goldee’s and one from Barbs B Q, pooled their brisket for a small counter in Greenpoint that serves Friday to Sunday until it runs out. There’s a beef rib the size of a forearm, with green spaghetti on the side.
55 McGuinness Blvd. S., Brooklyn
Walk-in only Instagram
West Village, New York Opened Sept. 2
Modern Thai · $$
Chef Chattchakorn “Benz” Khajornchaisan, with Kritayanee “Air” Promsarin and Pichalak “Picha” Srigungvarl, who met at Eleven Madison Park
Named for Thailand’s favorite jasmine rice, Hommali is three Bangkok natives cooking the food they missed, with house ferments and heirloom rice. Downstairs feels like a moody library; upstairs has a skylight big enough to tan under.
28 Seventh Ave. South
Photo: Poupay Jutharat
Bed-Stuy, New York Opened Sept. 2
Mexico City taqueria and café
The teams behind Olmo next door and Cicatriz in Mexico City
Olmo and Mexico City’s Cicatriz opened a café and taqueria next door to Olmo: potato, egg and cheese burritos and prickly pear iced coffee in the morning, then tacos like rib eye with jalapeño escabeche or mushroom deshebrada with pepitas from 5 p.m.
105 Saratoga Ave., Brooklyn
Walk-in only Website Instagram
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Chelsea, New York Opened July 2
Pan-Asian tasting menu · $$$$
Chef Jungsik Yim of three-Michelin-star Jungsik, with executive chef Daeik Kim
Jungsik Yim steps outside Korean food for an eight-course, $150 menu that roams all of Asia: a chicken wing stuffed with spiced pork and dusted in “Prinkle” seasoning, warm kongguksu, and a coconut and coffee dessert shaped like Singapore’s Merlion. The bar serves à la carte if you’re not ready to commit to eight.
151 W. 30th St.
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Lower East Side, New York Opens Oct. 2
Brazilian, by way of the Amazon · $$
Chef Vitor Mendes, formerly of Theodora and Brooklyn Fare
Vitor Mendes spent a month in the Amazon and came back with jambu, tucupi and a plan: pão de queijo, snapper moqueca, and picanha with tapioca fries and açaí ketchup. Comfort food, with a few ingredients you may be meeting for the first time.
205 Allen St.
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Williamsburg, New York Opens Oct. 6
Old-school American steakhouse · $$$
Chef Nick Pfannerstill, formerly of Café Boulud and Dovetail, from the team behind Nobody Told Me
Named for the chef’s grandfather, a Milwaukee car salesman, Booth’s is a supper-club steakhouse with broiled chops, chilled seafood towers and homemade butter rolls. The desserts are nostalgic and the martinis come very cold.
62 S. Second St., Brooklyn
Long Island City, New York Opens in early October
Café · $
DeVonn Francis of Yardy World, in his first restaurant
DeVonn Francis, known for his Yardy World dinners, opens his first restaurant inside MoMA PS1: curry chicken salad sandwiches, patties, cod and rice porridge, and soft serve for after the galleries (or instead of them).
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens
Walk-in only Website
DeVonn Francis at MoMA PS1. Photo by John Kim, courtesy MoMA PS1
Williamsburg, New York Opens in November
Seasonal French · $$$
Max Aronson and chef Harrison Geller, who met at Carbone
Two Carbone alums are opening a French restaurant with a quail and foie gras torte and whole turbot in banana leaf on the menu. The cocktails are odd in a good way: the martini comes with crawfish spice.
138 N. Eighth St., Brooklyn
