5 Napkin Burger coming to the Upper East Side
New York’s brasserie king isn’t stopping until he has an eatery on every corner.
Simon Oren, the man behind Nice Matin, French Roast, Marseille, Pigalle, Le Monde, Café d’Alsace and countless other restaurants, is opening a new 5 Napkin Burger on the Upper East Side.
At the same time, he’s launching a new Mexican concept eatery — a departure from his mostly French-themed fare — on the Upper West Side, Side Dish has learned. The restaurant, at 320 Amsterdam Avenue, will take over the current home of Citrus Bar & Grill Restaurant.
Oren would not comment on the timing, although sources said the project is “far along” in the development stage.
The new 5 Napkin Burger, at 1325 Second Ave, will encompass 3,000 square feet and seat 100 when it opens in April.
Oren and his partner in the Tour de France restaurant group, chef Andy D’Amico, have revamped the 5 Napkin Burger menu to provide healthier options like a Portabello mushroom burger for the vegetarian crowd. The 5 Napkin burger started out as an item on Nice Matin’s menu before Oren devoted a restaurant to it.
Cooper’s Craft & Kitchen in the East Village is expanding west to Chelsea, Side Dish has learned.
The new 2,200 square-foot outpost will open at 169 8th Ave. with enough seating for 100. A pioneer of the craft beer movement, the gastropub is owned and run by Thomas O’Byrne, Colin Stewart and David Clarke.
Executive chef Brendan Neville, formerly of Cafe Luxembourg and the Smith, has created a menu with updated pub classics, including beer-battered fish tacos, handmade pretzels with beer-infused cheese dip and Canadian-classic poutine — fries smothered in gravy sauce and cheese.
Harbs, a Japanese cake and sandwich shop, has opened in Chelsea at 198
9th Avenue.The 60 seat eatery is the first foreign outpost for Harbs, which has
30 locations in Japan since the first opened in 1981.
Offerings include a white chocolate cake with rum-splashed almond sponge cake and fresh whipped cream, and banana cream pie, along with more traditional Japanese sweets, like a waguri
tarte — with dainagon red beans mixed in fresh whipped cream covered by a Japanese chestnut paste and their signature green tea mousse sponge cake.
Harbs also offers ten of their original teas blended and packaged in Japan, while their coffee — individually brewed cups — is from their four original blends that are roasted in Seattle.
The look is European coffee house but the feel is Japanese — even the
display cases, coffee machines and ovens are imported from Japan.
We hear… that Burke & Wills, an Australian bistro named after that country’s 19th-century adventurers, has launched a weekend brunch. The restaurant, at 226 W. 79th St., has an upstairs cocktail lounge, the Manhattan Cricket Club. It has launched a $45 per-person weekend high tea.
Harbs, a Japanese cake and sandwich shop, has opened in Chelsea at 198 9th Avenue.
The 60 seat eatery is the first foreign outpost for Harbs, which has 30 locations in Japan, since opening in 1981.
Offerings include a white chocolate cake with rum-splashed almond sponge cake and fresh whipped cream, and banana cream pie, along with more traditional Japanese sweets, like a waguri tarte — with dainagon red beans mixed in fresh whipped cream covered by a Japanese chestnut paste and their signature green tea mousse sponge cake.
Harbs also offers ten of their original teas blended and packaged in Japan, while their coffee — individually brewed cups — is from their four original blends that are roasted in Seattle.
The look is European coffee house but the feel is Japanese — even the display cases, coffee machines and ovens are imported from Japan.
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