23-04-2025
A Japanese minimarket in Greenpoint is opening three new stores
Fifty Norman, the mini Japanese marketplace that opened in Greenpoint in 2022 to massive success, is physically expanding its store and adding a few new businesses and brands under its roof.
Starting this week, you'll find three additional shops on site. A French/Japanese inspired cafe-slash-bar is also scheduled to debut in June.
Currently at 50 Norman, you'll find Cibone, a Japanese home design store selling ceramics, kitchenware, zen meditation items and art pieces; Dashi Okume, where you can custom order your own blends of dashi packs; and House Brooklyn, a Japanese-French restaurant with a nine-course omakase tasting menu.
The new stores include Balmuda, a Japanese home appliance store; Kama-Asa, a kitchenware purveyor from Tokyo's kitchen-street Kappabashi that will sell a range of Amane knives; and Cibone O'Te, an artisanal design retailer focusing on homeware and furnishings.
The cozy café-resto-bar opening in June is Cafe O'te, which mixes the ambiance of a French wine bar with Japanese flavors.
a new food market curated by Muji that opened in Chelsea Market earlier this year to the new Bandai Namco store in Industry City and the resurgence of Japan-inspired claw machine arcades, we are squarely in the midst of a full-blown Japanese cultural renaissance in the city.
