The Manhattan Golden Mall Inches Closer to Opening
The original location for Golden Mall debuted in 1990 and helped shape how New Yorkers eat Chinese food. It has been the launch pad for chains like Xi'an Famous Foods and the Dashan Restaurant Group, behind restaurants like acclaimed Szechuan Mountain House and CheLi. After a five-year, $2 million overhaul — an effort to keep pace with intense competition in a rapidly changing neighborhood — the Flushing location reopened in July 2023, hosting a mix of familiar names and modern newcomers.
Last summer, Eater reported that owners Robert Cheng and family would expand with a Manhattan location. After a year with little word other than Instagram posts seeking vendors, there is finally a targeted opening month for the new Golden Mall: It's now set to open in September at 47 Broadway, near Trinity Church in Fidi, according to Tribeca Citizen.
'The signs are up,' the blog reports. The location — which the New York Times reported as a seven-floor, 32,000-square-foot space — will feature 18 vendors on the ground floor and in the basement, including Asian specialty cuisines, fried chicken, bubble tea, and desserts. The upper floors will apparently feature retail and restaurants.
The ambitious Manhattan location joins French newcomer Printemps, with its destination restaurant from the acclaimed Gregory Gourdet, Maison Passerelle — alongside its cafe, bakery, and champagne bar housed in a luxe department store. The opening is helping to reshape the Financial District, a neighborhood decimated by COVID with its fleet of empty office buildings in a work-from-home culture. Lately, that's been changing, such as with the reshaping of the Seaport.
Nearby, there's Marcus Samuelsson's Metropolis near One World Trade, the 135-seat restaurant adjacent to the $500 million Perelman Performing Arts Center. A year earlier, the Tin Building from Jean-Georges Vongerichten in the Seaport opened in 2022 and has since been the focus of controversy as well as downsizing.
When Golden Mall opened, food icons like the late Anthony Bourdain and Jonathan Gold celebrated the food hall for its sheer number of homestyle offerings at affordable prices — a destination, at the time, unlike any other food court in New York.
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