Emma Orlow

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Best Restaurant Dishes Eater NY Editors Ate This Week, June 23, 2025

5 days ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart |Emma Orlow |Nadia Chaudhury

With Eater editors dining out sometimes several times a day, we come across lots of standout dishes, and we don’t want to keep any secrets. Check back for the best things we ate this week. This smolderingly hot week would be an ideal time to seek out Smithereens, the cool below-street-level ode to New England cuisine from Nick Tamburo and Nikita Malhotra. A favorite dish was the paper-thin buckwheat crepe ($24) brushed with maple butter that drapes across a layer of creamy smoked bluefish.
A Bagel Shop Bows Out of Manhattan After Over a Decade

2 weeks ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow |Melissa McCart

Visit another Eater city sitePlus, an empanada shop expands — and more intelAfter 11 years, Baz Bagel, located at 181 Grand Street, at Mulberry Street, in Little Italy, is bowing out. An announcement went up on Instagram this week: The last day is June 22. Owner Bari Musacchio confirmed the news to Eater, adding that she had previously lived above the restaurant, but after 20 years in the neighborhood, she had moved on and it felt like a “natural time” to do the same with her business.
Best Affordable Food in the West Village

2 weeks ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart |Nadia Chaudhury |Emma Orlow

New York is a damn expensive city, and no more is that evident than in the picturesque Greenwich Village and the West Village in particular. The affluent neighborhood is lined with cobblestoned streets brimming with luxe developments, high-end boutiques, and the West Village Girls fulfilling their Sex and the City aspirations.
Lower East Side Restaurant Pig and Khao Is Closing After a Decade

3 weeks ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow

Pig and Khao Pig and Khao, Leah Cohen’s Southeast Asian restaurant, which had been on the Lower East Side for more than a decade, is shutting down. An Instagram announcement stated that the restaurant’s last day at 68 Clinton Street, near Rivington Street, is June 22. The lease had been up for renewal, and with the building “requiring significant investment to remain operational,” they made the decision not to renew. Eater has reached out for more information.
The Biggest New Restaurant Openings This Month

3 weeks ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow

Eric Medsker/Dynamo Room This is Eater’s guide to all the new restaurants, bars, and cafes that opened in June 2025. This list will be updated weekly and is a round-up of new places in the city we’re interested in checking out. When we’ve been to a place, and like it, we will then include an abbreviated number of openings on our heatmap to let you know the ones that are actually worth it. Stay tuned. If there’s an opening in your neighborhood that we’ve missed, let us know at [email protected].
A King Co-Owner Opens an Intimate Chinese American Wine Bar

3 weeks ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow

Lei, a new wine bar, opens on Friday, June 6, on one of Chinatown’s most historic streets, at 15-17 Doyers Street, along a winding car-free stretch of the neighborhood. It joins a new wave of Asian American wine bars that opened within a mile of each other in Lower Manhattan over the past year, like Ha’s Snack Bar, a Vietnamese bistro, and Sunn’s, serving Korean small plates, expanding what today’s New York wine bars look and feel like.
The Health Department Will Finally Let Restaurants Know When They Will Do Inspections

3 weeks ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow |Nadia Chaudhury

Mario Tama/Getty Images Anyone who’s ever worked in a New York restaurant will tell you the same thing: the waiting game for health department letter grades is hell, because, up until recently, there was no way to know exactly when the city planned to drop by for inspections. You’re slammed in service? Surprise, the health department is here anyway. Theoretically, letter grades serve a purpose in New York to tell diners about the cleanliness of an establishment.
Danny Meyer Is Opening Babette, a Members Dining Restaurant, Off Bryant Park

4 weeks ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow

Taylor Hill/Getty Images How many more private dining clubs can Manhattan take? Apparently, at least one more: Moss, a coming-soon members spot off of Bryant Park, at 520 Fifth Avenue, is the latest to throw its hat into the ring. It’s been separating itself from the pack over the past year, targeting a younger downtown community of food people, who have hosted various events at their Midtown space to drum up awareness before Moss officially debuts in the fall.
It Seems Like H Mart Could Be Coming to Tribeca

1 month ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow

Noam Galai/Getty Images For the past couple of years, neighborhood blog Tribeca Citizen has been tracking progress on an H Mart location reportedly on its way to 111 Hudson Street, at North Moore Street, replacing what was another Asian grocer, Jin Market, that closed in 2022. Eater has reached out to H Mart for more information.
Bedford Cheese Shop Is Closing in Manhattan’s Gramercy

1 month ago | ny.eater.com | Emma Orlow

Bedford Cheese Shop Bedford Cheese Shop is closing its last remaining location, which it has occupied for 14 years, in mid-June. An announcement posted to the company website states that an exit at 67 Irving Place in Gramercy was necessary because “the building is set to undergo an extensive, multi-year renovation.