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More fall openings

It’s harder than it looks to squeeze the goings-on of the city’s biggest restaurant season into four pages of the magazine. Lest the 18 new establishments listed in this week’s Fall Preview issue don’t satisfy your thirst for new blood, here are 27 more.

By Jordana Rothman

September

Bloomingdale Road
2398 Broadway at 88th St (212-874-7400)
Ed Witt didn't fare too well at the now-shuttered Varietal, the wine-focused eatery he helmed for four months in early 2007. Curious then that he's handling the wine list, along with the menu of American comfort food, in the former Aix space.

Boka
9 St. Marks Pl between Second and Third Aves (212-228-2887)
Finally, a respectable place for high-school students to nurse their post-tattoo pain on St. Marks Place. Expect sake and shareable stir-fries.

The Bouley shuffle
As was first reported on The Feed, this fall chef David Bouley’s Tribeca does his Tribeca do-si-do. The current location of Bouley will become an upscale marketplace and bakery in October; the flagship fine-dining institution will shuttle down the block (161 Duane St at Hudson St) in September; and the “Upstairs” café (130 West Broadway at Duane St, 212-608-5829) will cover two floors by October. And lest Danube (30 Hudson St at Duane St, 212-791-3771) feel left out of the proceedings, in September it too gets a new look; French, Italian and Mediterranean menu; and name—Secession.

Casa la Femme
140 Charles St between Greenwich and Washington Sts (no phone yet)
It hasn’t been a great year for high-end Middle Eastern eateries (see the short-lived Savarona), but this onetime Soho staple hopes to buck the trend. Casa la Femme reopens in the West Village, with 200 seats aching to be filled, this September.

Ella
9 Ave A at 1st St (212-777-2230)
Part piano bar, part concert venue (G. Love takes the stage this fall), this nightlife newcomer serves $12 cocktails via an arsenal of servers decked out in ’20s-style garb. Beats another night at Le Souk.

The Libertine
15 Gold St at Platt St (212-785-5950)
Todd English's latest absentee project: highbrow pub grub. The man actually slaving over your "caviar slider": longtime English underling Eben Leonard.

Philippe Express
469 Sixth Ave between 11th and 12th Sts (no phone yet)
Pricey, Westernized Chinese grub didn’t work at Mr. Chow or at that restaurant’s cornstarch-dependent offshoot, Philippe. We can only imagine what’s in store when done at an “express” pace.

Porchetta
110 E 7th St between Ave A and First Ave (212-777-2151)
Sara Jenkins (50 Carmine) stuffs the namesake roasted pork dish into compact sandwiches at this East Village shop.

Pranna
79 Madison Ave at 28th St (no phone yet)
At least as promising as the last big thing to come out of Long Island: Lindsay Lohan. Chef Chai Trivedi (Sitar) offers a Southeast Asian menu that includes a "satay lounge"—the skewers share menu space with Asian sliders.

10 Downing Food & Wine
10 Downing St at Sixth Ave (212-929-9460)
Jason Neroni last surfaced to consult at the doomed East Village spot Cantina. Here’s hoping he fares better at this American-Mediterranean restaurant, where he is teamed with consulting chef Katy Sparks (Compass).

Tierra Wine & Tapas Bar
130 Seventh Ave South at 10th St (no phone yet)
Where Tasca failed, Franklin Becker—who recently took over the adjacent Sheridan Square from opening chef Gary Robins—along with wine director Sterling Roig (Marseilles), and mixologist Rainlove Lampariello, hope to succeed.

West Branch
2178 Broadway at 77th St (212-777-6764)
Though the past year has seen an influx of serious UWS eateries, it was chef Tom Valenti who spearheaded the trend when he opened Ouest in 2001. Now he reprises his Euro-American approach to dinner just a few blocks downtown.

October

Almond
12 E 22nd St between Broadway and Park Ave South (no phone yet)
Because a case of Wolffer rosé just won’t ease your Hamptons withdrawal: Eric Lemonides and Jason Weiner open a branch of their popular Bridgehampton eatery in Gramercy.

Buttermilk Channel
524 Court St at Huntington St, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn (no phone yet)
Finally, a Cobble Hill eatery Jim Mamary isn't backing. This bistro comes our way via Doug Crowell (once a GM at Blue Water Grill) and chef Ryan Angulo (the Stanton Social). The New American playlist checks out: Expect seasonal eats, local beers and New York State wines.

Dirt Candy
430 E 9th St between First Ave and Ave A (no phone yet)
The vegetarian’s revenge soldiers on at this meatless spot, presided over by a Pure Food & Wine vet, chef Amanda Cohen.

Fatty Crab
2170 Broadway between 76th and 77th St (no phone yet)
The first of two fall projects from Zak Pelaccio is this uptown branch of the West Village Malaysian eatery. Jeffrey Chodorow is an investor. (NB to the Times admen: Save a page.)

John Dory
85 Tenth Ave between 15th and 16th St (no phone yet)
There’s no malt vinegar to be found at this British fish eatery from machers Ken Friedman and April Bloomfield, who first teamed up to shock and awe the NYC dining scene with pig-ear salad and gnudi at a West Village gastropub.

Mauboussin
714 Madison Ave at 63rd St (no phone yet)
The French jeweler opens its flagship NYC store this October, complete with an “Atelier du Chocolat,” vending the sweet stuff alongside the baubles. La Maison is already selling chocolate we can’t afford, thanks.

Nuela
43 W 24th St between Fifth and Sixth Aves (no phone yet)
Can former Patria toque Douglas Rodriguez pack the cavernous space that still houses past-its-prime Sapa? Word is he'll give it a go in October, when the Asian eatery goes belly-up in favor of the chef's Nuevo Latino menu.

Rouge Tomate
10 E 60th St between Fifth and Madison Aves (646-861-0842)
Onetime DB Bistro Moderne chef Jeremy Bearman leaves the foie gras-stuffed burgers behind to open this nutrition-focused American restaurant, an offshoot of a Brussels-based eatery.

SHO Shaun Hergatt
40 Broad St at Exchange Pl (no phone yet)
Chef Shaun Hergatt (Atelier) panders to FiDi folk at this 130-seat French-Asian eatery located in new condo development, the Setai Wall Street.

Village Tart
86 Kenmare at Mulberry St (no phone yet)
Red-light name notwithstanding, the only thing creaming at Patti Jackson’s Little Italy fro-yo shop are the ten Pacojets. They churn out à la minute yogurt in 20 seconds flat.

November

Biberon
765 Washington St between Bethune and W 12th Sts (212-242-3766)
Two hundred bottles and 25 wines by the glass do right by this wine bar’s name—biberon is French slang for “boozing” (and for baby bottles, incidentally, but we doubt that’s what they’re going for).

Bovindo
30 Irving Pl at 16th St (no phone yet)
Mario, Sergio and Suzanne Riva, who unveiled Irving Mill on the same block last October, focus on Neapolitan fare at this nearby trattoria, featuring a wood-burning oven.

City Winery
143 Varick St between Spring and Vandam Sts (212-608-0555)
Bringing new meaning to the term BYOB: The make-your-own vino gimmick is just part of the equation at City Winery. There’s also a wine bar, pouring 50 selections by the glass, cheeses provided by Murray’s and a small-plates eatery in the works.

Fatty Cue
91 S 6th St between Bedford Ave and Berry St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (no phone yet)
Zak Pelaccio is off the consulting game and into a high-profile partnership at this Williamsburg barbecue joint. The chef, along with former Hill Country pit master Robbie Richter, will pump out Southeast Asian–inflected smoked and brined meat.

Table 8 at the Cooper Square Hotel
25 Cooper Sq between 5th and 6th Sts (no phone yet)
After opening outposts in L.A. and South Beach, Florida, chef Govind Armstrong brings this market-driven chainlet to NYC. If the Northeast iteration doesn’t pan out, he can always land another guest judging stint on Top Chef.

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