At 8 a.m. on Spring Street, the new counters are open. At La Salumeria Soho, at Sullivan, the lights come on with the coffee crowd. A block east, ÓOL is pouring single-origin cacao. Five blocks south at Grand and West Broadway, the former Lucky Strike space stays dark until 5 p.m. That is when Straker's opens its doors.
Taken together, the restaurants, bars and bakeries that opened in SoHo between early September and late October split along two lines. The places you can walk into before lunch went up along Spring Street and its eastern edge. The rooms built for dinner and drinks gathered in the southwest corner, where Grand, Broome and West Broadway meet. Your fall in SoHo now has a route, and it runs north in the morning and south after dark.
Spring Street Took the Daytime Counters
The September openings on Spring Street were mostly counters you can stop into.
ÓOL, at 178 Spring Street near Thompson Street, opened Wednesday, September 9. Founder Ilana Gutierrez, who is from Mexico City, built the shop around single-origin cacao from Ecuador, Colombia and Belize. It's served as drinks made with milk or water, with chile or ginger syrups, according to Eater NY. Breads Bakery supplies pastries made with that cacao, including a cacao swirl, a cacao chop cookie and a cacao croissant. The two-story space was also set up to host tastings and workshops. At opening, What Now New York reported hours of Tuesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
La Salumeria Soho, at 195 Spring Street at Sullivan, opened Friday, September 25. It comes from chef Salvo Lo Castro, whose restaurant Casasalvo sits next door. The shop's main draw is a $15 Italian sandwich. Eater reported it would be open daily from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and would also offer Italian wine, aperitivi and cheese tastings. That makes it the one Spring Street opening that covers breakfast, lunch and an early glass of wine without closing in between.
Rye by Martin Auer is at 285 Lafayette Street at Jersey Street, on SoHo's eastern edge, and opened Thursday, September 10. Auer is an established baker in Austria, where his flour is milled, and no wheat goes into the bread. Eater reported whole rye loaves at $60 each, plus slices with spreads such as salmon roe or butter and chives. The shop also sells home goods, including a $480 limited-edition wooden bread container.
Cholapink Spans the Middle of the Day
The newest arrival on Spring Street connects the two halves of the map. Cholapink, at 32 Spring Street near Mott Street, opened Wednesday, October 28. Reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee is a co-founder. His partner is chef Jaime Pesaque, whose Lima restaurant Mayta appears on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, Eater reported. The format is quick service. The Infatuation describes meals built around grilled anticuchos skewers, with sides of ceviche or chaufa rice with Chinese sausage.
Cholapink's own site posts hours of 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day. It opens before lunch and closes at 11 p.m., the same hour Straker's does.
The Grand Street Corner Took the Dinners
Walk south to Grand Street and the new openings change character. Four of the fall's most talked-about rooms sit within a few blocks of the Grand and West Broadway intersection. None of them opens before late afternoon.
Straker's, at 59 Grand Street at West Broadway, opened Saturday, October 10, in the former Lucky Strike space. It is London chef Thomas Straker's first restaurant in the United States, and Australian chef Luka Coyne runs the kitchen. Straker told Eater NY that he signed the lease in April of last year and that the conversion was hard going:
"The build has been 12 months delayed and about $2 million over budget, but I think we've done a fantastic job."
The team removed the old kitchen and put in an open kitchen and an open bar. Straker told Eater that the interiors firm, Post Company, worked in nods to Lucky Strike. He named the mussel flatbread as the dish to order first. It's a 48-hour cold-ferment dough baked in the wood oven with mussels and chile butter. He described it as a hot bread-and-butter course and "the one thing we're definitely bringing over from London." The wine list pours Krug by the glass. The restaurant's site lists service every day from 5 to 11 p.m. and takes reservations.
Kythira NP, at 32 Grand Street at Thompson Street, opened Monday, September 21. It's the first solo restaurant from Greek chef Nicholas Poulmentis, whom Food Network viewers know from Chopped and Beat Bobby Flay. The restaurant is named for his home island. The Infatuation lists filet mignon souvlaki, black truffle tarama, and goat cheese gnocchi with blue crab. Of the southern group, Kythira opens earliest. Its posted hours start at 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Good Company, at 343 West Broadway between Broome and Grand, opened Thursday, October 8. It comes from the team behind Yesterday's, and chef Robert Sieber, who previously cooked at Jungsik and Montauk's The Surf Lodge, runs the kitchen. Eater's list includes focaccia toast with pimento goat cheese, wagyu French dip sliders, a build-your-own banana split and an espresso martini with labneh foam. The Infatuation describes a two-level bar with a huge disco ball. Reservations go through the restaurant's site.
Bar Leone, at 527 Broome Street at Watts Street, opened Thursday, September 10, in the 4,800-square-foot space that used to be Her Name Was Carmen. Restaurateur Andres Diaz designed the upstairs as a midcentury lounge with corduroy velvet and martinis made with Seventy One gin and caviar. Downstairs is a red-toned Italian disco with a lacquered chrome bar, and DJ Luigi Ambrosi curates the music. Both floors serve the same small plates, including Kumamoto oysters and a dry-aged short rib burger. Eater reported opening hours of Wednesday through Saturday from 6 p.m.
The Hours, Side by Side
| Place | Address | Opened | Posted or reported hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| ÓOL | 178 Spring St | Sept 9 | Tue–Sun, 8 a.m.–6 p.m., reported at opening |
| La Salumeria Soho | 195 Spring St | Sept 25 | Daily, 8 a.m.–9 p.m., reported at opening |
| Cholapink | 32 Spring St | Oct 28 | Daily, 11:30 a.m.–11 p.m. |
| Kythira NP | 32 Grand St | Sept 21 | Mon–Thu 4–10:30 p.m., Fri–Sat 4–11:30 p.m., Sun 3–9 p.m. |
| Straker's | 59 Grand St | Oct 10 | Daily, 5–11 p.m. |
| Bar Leone | 527 Broome St | Sept 10 | Wed–Sat from 6 p.m., reported at opening |
| Romy | 199 Prince St | Sept 22 debut, Sept 29 official | 5 p.m.–1 a.m. |
Every Spring Street opening is serving by midday. Nothing on the Grand Street corner opens before 3 p.m.
Prince Street Holds the Latest Table
One fall opening falls outside both groups. Romy, at 199 Prince Street between MacDougal and Sullivan, debuted Tuesday, September 22, according to Eater, and Time Out New York reported its official opening as September 29. It took over the small space that was Little Prince, and the same team runs it. Eater calls it a cozy steakhouse with a supper-club feel. Chef Lucrezia Stella's menu includes caviar service, lasagna with black truffle, and a dry-aged wagyu porterhouse.
Romy also runs latest. Its Resy page lists doors open from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. and notes that there is no bar seating. Its doors stay open two hours past Straker's 11 p.m. close.
A Saturday That Follows the Map
Using only the fall openings, here is how the day lays out on a Saturday, block by block:
- Morning, Spring Street. Cacao and a Breads Bakery cacao croissant at ÓOL, a block east of La Salumeria Soho at Sullivan.
- Late morning, Lafayette Street. Slices of rye with salmon roe at Rye by Martin Auer, or a whole loaf to take home.
- Lunch, back on Spring. A $15 sandwich at La Salumeria Soho, or anticuchos at Cholapink from 11:30 a.m.
- Early evening, Grand Street. Kythira NP opens at 4 p.m., the earliest dinner option in the southern cluster.
- Dinner, Grand and West Broadway. The mussel flatbread at Straker's from 5 p.m., or Good Company's two-level bar a short walk north on West Broadway.
- After dinner, Broome and Watts. Bar Leone's caviar martinis upstairs and the disco downstairs from 6 p.m., based on its reported opening hours.
- Late, Prince Street. Romy's doors stay open until 1 a.m.
The whole route stays within SoHo's borders, and every stop is a fall opening.
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