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The vegan chef has reopened in her original Greenwich Village location; Afghan delights in Beacon, N.Y.; and more restaurant news.
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Chloe
Chloe Coscarelli — who got a fast start when it came to vegan dining nearly 10 years ago, then was ousted from her restaurant, By Chloe, by her partner — is back on track. She has reopened a casual restaurant in her original location and is in the kitchen as the chef. Avocado toast, kale Caesar salad, quinoa taco salad and roasted tomato-basil soup do not require kitchen magic to be vegan, but items like mac and cheese, a burger and a hot Italian meatball hero call for the sorts of substitutions that helped vegan food become mainstream. That also goes for the dazzling array of cookies and other sweets rolling out of the oven. She said that an expanded vegan pantry, a more receptive audience and no partner have inspired her this time around.
185 Bleecker Street (MacDougal Street), chloeonbleecker.com.
Calvert’s
Scenesters do not flock to Central Park South as they might downtown, but the restaurant and club entrepreneur Scott Sartiano, of Zero Bond and Sartiano’s, also runs the uptown food and drink destinations in the Park Lane New York. What was previously Harry’s New York Bar, the second floor dining room named for Harry Helmsley, the developer who built the hotel in this location, is now luxuriously tailored and renamed to honor Calvert Vaux, a designer of Central Park. Shrimp cocktail, Caesar salad, a burger and steak frites won’t challenge visitors, though the chef, John Merry, plans to serve some dishes made with foraged ingredients like dandelion greens (not from the park).
36 Central Park South (Fifth Avenue), 212-371-4000.
Vintage Green
Enough rooftop for an Olympic event or two, a good 11,000 square feet, has opened for food and drink, and entertainment. It tops off the Shelburne Sonesta New York, in Murray Hill.
303 Lexington Avenue (37th Street), 646-349-0955, vintagegreen.nyc.
Gjelina Pop-Up at No Bar
This Los Angeles transplant that suffered a fire shortly after it settled into its two-story skylit home on Bond Street last year has yet to finish its major rebuild. A reopening is expected in the fall. In the meantime, it has taken up residence for August in the Standard, East Village nearby. There’s no wood oven, so pizza will not be on the limited Greenmarket-driven menu; the hours will be only 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. daily.
No Bar, the Standard, East Village, 25 Cooper Square (East 6th Street), standardhotels.com.
Okonomi-Yuji Ramen Pop-Up
Yuji Haraguchi’s popular and distinctive Japanese restaurant, known for breakfast by day and seafood ramen in the evenings, is crossing into Manhattan on Monday and will be open until Oct. 31. The fish-centric breakfast and the ramen dishes, including brothless mazemen, will be served from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m., and from 5 to 9 p.m. With 50 seats instead of 12, reservations should be easier to score. Mr. Haraguchi has taken the many-fingered Hand Hospitality on as a partner, but he is still involved.
110 Madison Avenue (29th Street), 917-261-4969, okonomi.us.
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