L’Abeille, Serving French Fare With Casual Elegance, Opens in TriBeCa

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L’Abeille

From the beginning, TriBeCa’s conversion from warehouse district to restaurant hub has featured opulent, high-end eating locations. Assume Chanterelle, Montrachet, Bouley, Mr. Chow and Danube. This has not modified: Newer additions embody One White Road, Atera, Jungsik and now this restaurant, set in a former espresso and tea warehouse. The manager chef and a associate, Mitsunobu Nagae, is serving French fare with Japanese touches in a setting directly casual, with no tablecloths, and luxuriously appointed with plush snow-pea velvet. Mr. Nagae, 34, who’s from Osaka, labored in Paris at Le Doyen earlier than transferring onto the Joël Robuchon empire, together with L’Atelier in New York, and later Shun. When he wound up at unfastened ends as soon as the pandemic closed down eating places, Rahul Saito, an prosperous native resident with a style for nice meals, tapped him for this new enterprise. They outline it with the French time period “bistronomie,” that means a bistro for elegant eating. As for the restaurant’s title, it’s a sly reference to the Mitsu, that means honey, within the chef’s title. (“Abeille” means “bee” in French.) Mr. Nagae’s menu contains pigeon glazed with miso and grilled over binchotan charcoal, lobster marinated with vanilla French dressing, and a dessert of strawberries with lychee, rose and shiso. There’s a six-course tasting menu, $180, along with à la carte. French bottles and particularly Champagnes dominate the wine record, which is curated by John Mckenna, the beverage director.

412 Greenwich Road (Laight Road), 212-542-3898, labeille.nyc.

Opening

Momoya Soho

A 3rd location with a extra upscale method for this Japanese restaurant, which marries basic sushi and chawanmushi with objects like a tuna tortilla, has opened. It’s on two flooring, however a sushi omakase ($150) is served solely on the ground-floor sushi bar, which has 12 seats. (Opens Wednesday)

47 Prince Road (Mulberry Road), 323-828-0096, momoyanyc.com.

Keys & Heels

Massimo Lusardi’s In Tune Hospitality has added this lounge, masquerading as a locksmith and shoe restore, to the block the place it additionally has Uva and Uva Subsequent Door. The brand new spot, executed with velvet accents, serves drinks and small plates.

1488 Second Avenue (78th Road), 917-557-0217, keysandheelsnyc.com.

Manero’s

The movie “Saturday Evening Fever” impressed this red-sauce joint, an outgrowth of Manero’s Pizza. You simply may know what to order with out even wanting on the menu, besides that there’s no hen Parm. (Wednesday)

113 Mulberry Road (Canal Road), 212-345-6789, maneros.pizza.