Melissa McCart

Asbury Park, Jersey City, ‘Ewa Beach

Editor for Eater NY. Prior: The Bittman Project. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette restaurant critic. Coauthor, Bread & How to Eat It w/Rick Easton-- out May 2023!

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Greenwich Village Sleeper Hit Will Open a Bigger, More Ambitious Sequel

3 days ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart

Melissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Andy Quinn, the chef and co-owner of the Noortwyck in Greenwich Village since it opened three years ago, is preparing to open a second restaurant in the fall— a larger project on the ground floor of an 1890’s commercial building at the edge of Nolita and Little Italy (174 Mott Street, at Broome Street).
After 24 Years, Tom Colicchio Changes the Menu at His Iconic Restaurant

4 days ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart

Visit another Eater city sitePlus, three new places to eat at Grand Central – and more intelMelissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Ahead of the Flatiron restaurant’s 25th anniversary next year, Craft (43 East 19th Street, at Park Avenue South) is segueing from a family-style menu to a la carte starting today, says chef and owner Tom Colicchio.
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.
Daniel Boulud Is Shuttering a Trio of Restaurants to Open a Brasserie

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart

Visit another Eater city siteThe chef is combining the spaces to open a Lincoln Center brasserie in the fallMelissa McCart is the lead editor of the Northeast region with more than 20 years of experience as a reporter, critic, editor, and cookbook author. Prolific French chef Daniel Boulud shows no signs of dialing back a breakneck pace of opening restaurants.
A ‘Top Chef’ Winner’s Flatiron Restaurant Closes After Less Than a Year

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Emily Venezky |Melissa McCart

Flatiron’s Time and Tide closes today following its debut in October 2024. The upscale Flatiron fish house from Kent Hospitality and Top Chef winner Danny Garcia will reopen as a new concept from the same team — but an unexpected residency will be in the space until then. After a kitchen fire closed neighboring Massara on June 11, the Southern Italian spot from chef Stefano Secchi and his partner, David Switzer, will pop up at 48 E.
NYC Restaurants Score Five 2025 James Beard Awards

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart

The James Beard Foundation announced the winners of its restaurant awards — the equivalent of the food world Oscars. The evening netted five prestigious medals for New York City including chef Vijay Kumar of Semma in Greenwich Village winning Best Chef: New York State and Jungsik Yim of Downtown’s Jungsik landing the Outstanding Chef Award. Best Chef: New York State Award went to chef Vijay Kumar of Semma.
Best Dishes New York Editors Ate This Week: June 16

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart

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. I’ve never met a shrimp wonton that I didn’t at least like (knock on wood), but a recent visit to the Manhattan outpost of Maxi’s Noodle introduced me to a shrimp wonton that I really loved. The main draw is that these wontons are big.
An Old Hudson Diner Has Been Relaunched by an Exciting Culinary Team

1 week ago | ny.eater.com | Melissa McCart

A partner from Hudson’s Mel the Bakery has joined forces with the Meat Hook to open Hudson Diner, which debuted on Saturday, June 14, starting with dinner: items like straight-ahead affordable cocktails, a wedge salad, and chicken tenders. It’s a takeover of what had been Grazin’ Diner (717 Warren Street, at Park Place), a staple of Warren Street that had been around for a decade. The Meat Hook owner, Brent Young, and Mel the Bakery partner, Ashley Berman, picked up the location back in January.
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.
The Biggest Restaurant Openings in June

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

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].