New places in NYC

By Anna Balkrishna, Billie Cohen, Kate Lowenstein and Cristina Velocci

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Restaurant at the Standard Hotel
Rooms may be for tourists at this High Line–straddling glass-walled tower, but chef Dan Silverman’s food at the as-yet-unnamed restaurant (slated to open at the end of June) will likely please the locals, too. The hotel also has late-summer plans for an 18th-floor rooftop cocktail lounge, for those of us who want the view without the room. 848 Washington St at 13th St (212-645-4646, standardhotels.com)

BKLYN Larder
Opening mid-June, this artisanal food store from the owners of locavore pizza and pasta shop Franny’s promises top-notch small-batch cheeses, cured meats, terrines, prepackaged fresh foods and sandwiches—plus a few counter seats at which to eat them. 228 Flatbush Ave between Sixth Ave and Bergen St, Park Slope, Brooklyn (718-230-0221, bklynlarder.com)

The Breslin
Bikinis be damned. The team behind the Spotted Pig and the John Dory, Ken Friedman and chef April Bloomfield, have devised another excuse for happily eating our way through the summer. Their latest venture will open August 1 in the spanking-new Ace Hotel, and as Friedman tells us via e-mail, “It will be a meatcentric half restaurant, half bar with seating on barstools and in booths. It’ll look like we imagined the restaurant in the old Breslin hotel looked like, with a bit of a 21st-century sense of humor.” 16 W 29th St between Fifth Ave and Broadway (212-679-2222, thebreslin.com)

Bruar Falls
The people who brought you LES music venue/bar/vegan bakery Cake Shop (and Library Bar and alt.Coffee) now bring you Bruar Falls, a Williamsburg outpost with a similar gimmick—plus an outdoor space slated to open next month. 245 Grand St between Driggs Ave and Roebling St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (myspace.com/bruarfallsbk)

DBGB
The main shtick at this June 8 arrival is the sausage. But since said shtick was conjured by Daniel Boulud, this sausage equals classy, with 14 varieties all made in house. Then again, the master did recently tell our food blog, The Feed, about his Kobayashi-like obsession with the links: “My fellow cooks and I used to compete to see how many we could eat at once.” 299 Bowery between E Houston and 1st Sts (212-933-5300, danielnyc.com)

Dickson’s Farmstand Meats
Local-meat purveyor Dickson’s is soon opening its first brick-and-mortar shop in—where else?— the Meatpacking District. The Chelsea Market shop is slated for an August arrival and will hawk fresh meats sourced from New York state farmers, along with prepared foods like roasted chickens, sausage on a roll and braised meats from a full onsite kitchen. In the meantime, starting Friday 29, the company is setting up a small stand in front of its store, and selling a limited selection of meats, spotlighting one of their farmers each weekend, Thursday through Sunday. dicksonsfarmstand.com

Gus & Gabriel’s Gastropub
Chef Michael Psilakis and Donatella Arpaia plan to reinvent the space that held the original Kefi into Gus & Gabriel, to open by midsummer. Psilakis’s menu will appeal to the teen in all of us, but with an adult take: The pulled-pork sloppy joe, smoked turkey wings and pork riblets are made with carefully selected, high-quality ingredients. 222 W 79th St between Amsterdam Ave and Broadway (no phone yet)

Purple Yam
The folks behind the now-shuttered Cendrillon, which until this past March had been sating Soho for 13 years, are planning a new Filipino-tinged Pan-Asian restaurant. Co-owner Amy Besa tells us that they’re finally “seeing the end of construction” and will open in July to serve “an Asian table of comfort foods, but made well.” Expect homemade tofu, pancakes and kimchi of traditional and experimental varieties, including a jicama and apple version. 1314 Cortelyou Rd between Argyle and E 14th Sts, Ditmas Park, Brooklyn (cendrillon.com)

SD26
Construction is under way for Tony May’s reincarnation of San Domenico, set for a September unveiling. This time, instead of being on Central Park, it’ll rise on the edges of another green spot, Madison Square Park. The food’s still Italian, and there’s a nice twist: If you like the ingredients, you can buy them from a small shop inside the eatery. 19 E 26th St between Fifth and Madison Aves (no phone yet)

Sho Shaun Hergatt
Australian chef Shaun Hergatt brings his exotic, Asian-inflected French cuisine to luxury condo and private club the Setai NYC, just steps from the New York Stock Exchange. The much-delayed eatery is slated to finally open this summer (we’ll see), when it will serve $34 slow-poached halibut to the expense-account set (or what’s left of it). 40 Broad St at Exchange Pl (212-809-3993, shoshaunhergatt.com)

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