RED HOOK RESTAURANT SERVING TEA SANDWICHES AND HOT FUDGE SUNDAES OPENS SOON
One of Brooklyn’s most anticipated restaurant openings from 2024 is finally debuting this month from the chef behind Eastern European all-day restaurant Agi’s Counter in Crown Heights. Jeremy Salamon’s Pitt’s will open in Red Hook on 347 Van Brunt Street, at Wolcott Street starting on Friday, January 17. Reservations can be booked now on Resy.
The new neighborhood restaurant is meant to feel and taste nostalgic while paying tribute to the “golden era” of New York dining in the early 2000s, per the press release. The food menu stems from the chef’s time cooking in North Carolina and New York (the name is his nickname). This means dishes such as gouda pimento with fried saltines, thick tea sandwiches, grilled mutton chops, Carolina rice grits with bottarga, and hot fudge sundaes.
The cocktail menu from bartender Ben Hopkins (who previously worked at the bars of places like Momofuku Ssäm Bar and Please Don’t Tell) includes the Cosmopolitan-French 75 hybrid the Cosmo 75; the Bullseye Margarita made with the addition of apricot liqueur; and the ode to Irish coffee from the restaurant’s predecessor Fort Defiance, the Taeko Coffee with mizu-barley shochu. There are also Red Hook beers and wines by the glass or bottle.
Favorite Queens wonton restaurant comes to Manhattan
Popular Flushing wonton restaurant Maxi’s Noodle is going to be opening in Manhattan this month, as reported by Grub Street. The second location, dubbed Maxi’s Noodle 3, will open at 68 Mott Street between Canal and Bayard streets in Chinatown starting on Wednesday, January 15. Owner and chef Maxi Lau-O’Keefe started Maxi’s as a pop-up in 2019 at her aunt’s restaurant and then turned it into her own restaurant in Flushing later that year. She expanded with the second location also in Flushing in 2024, making this Manhattan one her third. Maxi’s Noodle 3 will offer up a similar menu — those giant Hong Kong-style wontons in broths, noodle soups, or noodles. The expansion will have two new items: a vegan broth and a mushroom topping. The small space (previously a location of Tipsy Shanghai) will have 30 seats. Its hours will be from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.
New Filipino bakery pop-up touts sweet breads
Queens bakery Arellano Pandesal is launching a pop-up series this weekend at Sunnyside brewery Alewife Brewing at 41-11 39th Street, near Skillman Avenue. The menu is all about pandesal (per the name) — a sweetish Filipino white bread. The pop-up menu includes the rolls as well as sweet and savory ensaymadas (flavored Filipino rolls). The first pop-up takes place on Saturday, January 11 from 1 p.m. to about 4 p.m. Baker Jennifer Arellano and her family started the bakery in November 2024. Regular takeout orders can be placed online.
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