Felice Opens an Higher West Side Branch

Headliner

Felice Columbus

Restaurants usually open up hoping to create a faithful community clientele. At this Upper West Facet addition to the Felice restaurants, with locations on the Higher East Aspect and somewhere else, Iacopo Falai, a indigenous Florentine and the culinary director for SA Hospitality, which owns Felice and the Sant Ambroeus restaurants, has done some research. “It’s hospitality for the neighborhood,” he reported, of adding a smoked fish platter, rigatoni with fresh and smoked salmon, and even healed herring with jardinière to the otherwise Tuscan menu. Plate-sized, slim-crust pizzas are also out there, and Italophiles can select from a lot more than 10 pastas, a lengthy list of appetizers and salads, and a assortment of key courses. A 20-seat bar, which will take up most of the ethereal, nicely-windowed 65-seat dining home, specializes in Negronis, with an solution to layout your individual. The restaurant, accented with dark wooden, is not pretty as cozy with leather banquettes as some other people in the team, but there is a effectively-upholstered lounge on the decrease level that will open in late September. A number of tables are set outdoors.

240 Columbus Avenue (71st Road), 212-931-1150, felicenyc.com.

Opening

Veronika

Following a pandemic slumber, the restaurateur Stephen Starr has woke up the wonderful dining area on the second flooring of Fotografiska New York, the pictures museum, with a new govt chef, Wolfgang Ban. Mr. Ban, who owned quite a few eating places and bars in New York, has retained much of what the past chef, Robert Aiken, served. The menu choices, like potato pierogi, Wiener schnitzel and coulibiac of salmon, presently reflected the foodstuff of Jap Europe and Mr. Ban’s native Austria, but he has tweaked many of them to match his strategy. The chicken in puff pastry with riesling sauce, lobster Newburg and veal goulash served with roasted peppers and caraway dumplings are a couple of his new dishes. For now, the cafe will be open for supper only Wednesdays even though Saturdays. (Opens Wednesday)

281 Park Avenue South (22nd Road), 646-993-6993, veronikanyc.com.

Sami and Susu

They ran pop-ups for the earlier year or so, but now Amir Nathan and Jordan Anderson have set down roots on the Decreased East Aspect for their lively Mediterranean fare. The restaurant will start with a breakfast that incorporates the inevitable bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, but theirs is rolled into a flaky boureka. An all-working day menu follows. They will also promote some grocery things like Palestinian olive oil and organized meals like baba ganoush and spicy tuna conserva. There is seating indoors and out. (Friday)

190 Orchard Avenue (East Houston Avenue), 646-559-2846, samiandsusu.com.

Sugarfish by Sushi Nozawa

A fourth edition of this Los Angeles import has opened. It to start with arrived to New York in 2016 and is recognized for its moderately priced set menus, which produce lengthy lines as reservations are not acknowledged. The new cafe has a roomy outside waiting around space, but no outside seating.

152 East 53rd Avenue, sugarfishsushi.com.