28-05-2025
An Iconic West Village Restaurant Is Opening in Brooklyn
Chef Jonathan Waxman is expanding his iconic Manhattan restaurant restaurant, Barbuto in Manhattan into Brooklyn this summer. Barbuto Brooklyn will open in Brooklyn Heights inside 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge at 60 Furman Street, near Doughty Street, aiming for a June opening.
The new Barbuto will be similar to its revived West Village sibling centered on Californian Italian food. This includes that famous roast chicken with salsa verde, the garlicky kale salad, and pastas like gnocchi. The space boasts good views with big windows, an open kitchen, and general industrial decor.
Expanding into Brooklyn appealed to Waxman, as he explains over email via a rep, because 'my mom was from Bed-Stuy, so Brooklyn is in my blood.' He also had already worked with luxury hospitality company 1 Hotels before. His first New York restaurant, Jams, which was centered on California cuisine, opened in 1984 on the Upper East Side, but closed in 1988. Then, nearly three decades later in 2015, he teamed with with the hotel company to reopen the restaurant as part of the 1 Hotel Central Park in Midtown.
Waxman — who is from California and worked at Chez Panisse under Alice Waters in the 1970s — opened Barbuto in 2004 and built its reputation on its breezy Californian Italian menu. The restaurant closed in 2019 because the building's new owners didn't want a restaurant anymore, but Waxman was determined to relocate. The new Barbuto reopened in the same West Village neighborhood in a new address in 2020 — briefly — until it had to pause for the pandemic. It fully reopened in 2021.
This isn't the only project Waxman's been working on. He just opened a new wine bar, Bar Tizio, next door to the Manhattan Barbuto in mid-May. He also runs San Francisco restaurant Park Tavern on Washington Square.
The rest of the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge's dining and drinking spots include cocktail bar Harriet's Lounge, Harriet's Rooftop, and the lobby Neighbors Cafe.
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