27-05-2025
A Major Patty Chain Hailing From Jamaica Opens its First New York Locations
A Caribbean fast-food chain, well-known in Jamaica, has made its New York debut. Juici Patties opened in Bed-Stuy on 1293 Fulton Street, at Nostrand Avenue on Sunday, April 27, followed by a Bronx outpost that opened in the Boogie Down Food Hall at the Bronx Terminal Market on 610 Exterior Street, Fourth Floor on Thursday, May 22. Both counter-service restaurants serve all sorts of flaky patties, with fillings like beef (mild or spicy), curried chicken, shrimp, and vegan shrimp. Then there's coco bread, plantains, and fries. A rep for the company boasted that this Brooklyn location is its 'highest-performing opening' in the company's 40 years in operation, selling 24,000 patties in a week.
This is the start of a major New York expansion for the company, with plans to open restaurants elsewhere in Brooklyn and the Bronx as well as Queens. Founder Jukie Chin started Juici Patties in 1980 in Jamaica, and now there are more than 65 locations there, as well as its first American locations in Florida starting in 2024. It's one of several big patty openings for New York this month: in related patty news, chef Kwame Onwuachi debuts his patty restaurant, Patty Palace, in Citi Field earlier this spring, and has plans to open a second location in Union Square. A comfort-food favorite is finally opening in Manhattan
Queens comfort food restaurant Comfortland is finally making headway on opening that long-awaited Manhattan location. The new Lower East Side expansion will open at 92 Rivington Street, near Ludlow Street, in late June. This third location was announced about two and a half years ago and was supposed to open in April 2024. However, issues arose, and Donnie D'Alessio announced the team signed a new lease in mid-May. The original Astoria restaurant opened in 2010, becoming known for its hearty foods such as loaded fried chicken sandwiches, chopped cheese empanadas, and croissant breakfast sandwiches. It expanded into Williamsburg earlier this January with a ghost kitchen location only offering pickups and deliveries. New Japanese cafe opens in Manhattan
Adorable food alert: Brooklyn cafe Kijitora opened its third location and first Manhattan one this month. The new cafe opened in the East Village at 534 East 14th Street, between Avenues A and B, on Friday, May 23, with limited service and hours. The Japanese cafe menu includes coffee, espresso, teas and lattes such as the tiramisu, the dirty black sesame, and the location-only azuki matcha latte And while it's most known for its Neko grilled cheese sandwiches, made in the shape of a happy cat face, it's alas not available at this new Manhattan location. But there are other sandwiches in the meantime. Owner Ayaha Otsuk opened her first location in Williamsburg in 2022, followed by East Williamsburg in 2023.
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