Confidant Brings Fine Dining to Industry City

New York Times

18-03-2025

Opening
This much-anticipated fine-dining addition, a first for Industry City, is about to open in a setting that combines polished cement, wooden accents, napery and an open kitchen. The chefs Brendan Kelley and Daniel Grossman, who worked at Roberta's, have brought on a few hospitality veterans as partners. A seasonal menu emphasizes dry-aged fish and meats, some from Industry City merchants. Trout mousse, tuna prosciutto and tuna belly crudo can also precede prawn potpie, steamed monkfish with brown butter crumbles, and a whole crown of duck with duck confit salad. The pastry chef Mariah Neston offers a rhubarb upside-down cake and, move over charlotte russe, an updated biscuit tortoni. (Opens Wednesday)
Industry City, Building No. 5, 67 35th Street (Third Avenue), Brooklyn, 929-252-0205, confidantnyc.com.
This 257-seat Korean barbecue palace on two floors is most of the iceberg. The space will soon accommodate the rest: DubuHaus for tofu and Musaek, serving cocktails with a raw bar. The specialties are steaks, domestic and imported, including Wagyu, to order à la carte ($55 to $95) or in set arrangements. All come with banchan and lettuce ssam. There are also seafood naeng-chae, spicy cold noodles, kettlepot rice, kimchi stew and, for dessert, green tea soft serve.
7 East 31st Street, 347-504-5401, howoo.nyc.
They nailed the season for the opening of the New York branch of the Parisian megastore, Printemps. All but the flagship restaurant, Maison Passerelle, opening in April, will be ready to serve and pour by the end of the week. Alongside boutiques, shoppers will find a Champagne bar; Café Jalu, open all day for coffee and pastries; Salon Vert, with raw bar items; and the Red Room Bar, for cocktails, adjacent to Maison Passerelle. The food is the province of Gregory Gourdet, the culinary director, whose approach to French fare includes tastes of Haiti, West Africa, Vietnam and French Canada. Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs are by Laura Gonzalez. (Friday)
1 Wall Street (Exchange Place), us.printemps.com.
An uncommon Nikkei vibe comes to Carnegie Hill from Jorge Dionicio, a native of Peru who worked at Uchi in Austin, Texas, and whose New York experience has been in Japanese restaurants like Morimoto and Sushi Noz. He makes liberal use of ají amarillo in gyoza, maki and tiradito, and is serving Peruvian lomo saltado, a beef stir-fry; and parihuela, a kind of Peruvian bouillabaisse. The dining room deploys Peruvian textiles for vibrant accents, and there's an omakase counter on the upper level.
1312 Madison Avenue (93rd Street), 646-833-7033, kanshanyc.com.
A tropical jungle fantasy that has parked its leopard prints, lush greenery and disco balls in pop-up locations in New York and elsewhere, now has a permanent home on Pier 17 in the seaport district. It trumpets its taste of Tulum, the late-Mayan archaeological site on the coast of the Yucatán that now has the vibe of St. Barts. Tulum is where the parent group, Grupo Gitano, run by James Gardner, got its start. An installation in Dubai preceded New York. The menu here is long on Mexican crowd-pleasers. It has taken over parts of two levels of the pier; a private club will open upstairs.
Pier 17, South Street and Fulton Street, gitano.com.
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