Opening
Bedford Post Tavern
When post roads were horse and buggy interstates, the Bedford Post Inn, dating from 1762, was a rest stop. Its gracious restaurant is now reopening after renovations with the chef Sam Mason turning out tavern fare like oysters, onion tart, skirt steak and grilled chicken, not just his usual pastries. Like the rest of the inn, Sunday Hospitality, which also runs El Quijote and Cafe Chelsea in Manhattan, is managing it in partnership with the actor Richard Gere, an owner. Bedford Post Barn, a casual spot on the property for all-day fare and baked goods from BreadsNbakes nearby, is opening soon. (Opens Wednesday)
Nomad Tea Parlour
A Cantonese-born chef, Ai Shin Wu, who has been working in the United States since 2001, is cooking, with input from Mandy Zhang, a New York restaurateur and an owner here. The menu includes dim sum and reconfigured Chinese American specialties like Coca-Cola chicken wings, plum sauce roast duck and lobster spring rolls. There’s a list of teas, and the cocktail menu offers Hong Kong milk tea and a lychee martini. The décor in the two level space with an open kitchen, has striped awnings and signage suggesting a Hong Kong street. (Friday)
CasaSalvo
Amsterdam Avenue is not Palermo’s Via Roma, but in his grissini of a storefront, the genial Sicilian-born chef Salvo Lo Castro is doing his best. He produces espresso-based coffees (all $2.50) and Americanos hot or cold; cappuccino with pistachio cream is a signature. Freshly made pastries like cornetti are served. Seating is indoors and out. Italian products, many from Sicily, line shelves. If you’ve never tried ultra-creamy peanut butter from Italy seasoned with Trapani salt, now is your chance. Mr. Lo Castro also offers a catering menu and sells prepared pastas and salads to go. Next month he will open another cafe at 66th Street and Madison Avenue.
Veselka
The venerable Ukrainian East Village restaurant has opened an outpost in Brooklyn. Along with its usual specialties, there are new pierogies, called pastrogis, filled with Katz’s Delicatessen pastrami on the menu. (Wednesday)
Continent Brooklyn
Brooklyn inspiration that touches on the Caribbean, Africa and Asia informs the food at this new restaurant, on the Hotel Indigo’s garden level. The chef, Scotley Innis, is known for Continent Restaurant and Cigar Lounge in Atlanta.
Bonito 47
This high-end option for kosher dining in the theater district includes global touches like gnocchi with duck confit, crisp Moroccan cigar pastries filled with short rib, and Pavlova on its menu of steaks and fish. It also serves nigiri and sushi rolls and offers a 10-course steak omakase for $250 per person. This all happens in an elegantly attired 7,000 square foot space by Joshua Kessler of Barnea Group, which has Barnea Bistro across town. (Wednesday)
Café Maud and the Rhymers Club
Tucked behind an all-day cafe with a brick pizza oven is this speakeasy inspired by the Rhymers Club, a London poets’ group founded in 1890 by William Butler Yeats and Ernest Rhys for dining, drinking and publishing poetry. The New York version is not into publishing, but serves Irish drinks in honor of Yeats, and small bites. It’s by the group that also owns Jackdaw and Dear Maud. (Friday)
Glace Truck
A mimosa yellow Citroën truck from the 1940s is now parked on Rockefeller Plaza dispensing soft-serve confections by Glace, the gluten-free Upper East Side ice cream shop that drew long lines for its Instagramable hot chocolate this winter. Here the hot chocolate will be frozen. Soft-serve in a rotation of flavors, plain or as sundaes, is also on tap.
Beer Run
This third outlet for craft beers, to go or on tap at the bar, has opened on the Upper West Side. Natural wines and ciders are also sold, and, to eat, pretzels and Jake Dickson’s bratwurst served on a pretzel bun with sauerkraut.
Eataly Flatiron
Renovations have given the Italian market an expanded coffee station with more seating; a redesigned seafood restaurant, Pesce; and a more spacious display for pastries and gelati.
Looking Ahead
A Celebration of Anthony Bourdain
On June 13 from 7 to 8 p.m., at the Museum of Food and Drink in Dumbo, there will be a celebration of the publication of the paperback edition of Anthony Bourdain’s “World Travel.” A discussion with Helen Rosner, a writer for The New Yorker, and Laurie Woolever, who was Bourdain’s assistant, worked on the book with him and wrote it after he died, will be followed by a book signing. The event is in-person at the museum, $30, or $52 including the book.
French Pastry Workshops
Anticipating the Paris Olympic Games, the French Institute Alliance Française is offering hands-on classes, through Aug. 2, in the art of the croissant, the macaron and more at Pistache, a Brooklyn pastry-maker and cooking school. There are eight sessions, each for six students, $150, and some are in French.
Chefs on the Move
Gregory Gourdet
This chef from Queens, N.Y., has been named culinary director of the new Printemps, to open at One Wall Street next spring, the first American branch of the venerable Parisian department store that’s betting on the vitality of the financial district. Mr. Gourdet, 48, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, worked at several of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s restaurants and eventually opened Kann, his award-winning restaurant in Portland, Ore., which draws on his Haitian heritage. Printemps, founded in 1865, will have five restaurants, from an all-day fine dining flagship to casual spots, that will be managed by Saga Hospitality Group, known for the restaurants Crown Shy and Saga.
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