Headliner
Nasrin’s Kitchen
Nasrin Rejali, who arrived from Iran by means of Istanbul in 2016, cooked for Eat Offbeat, a catering firm that employs refugees. In 2020 she began Nasrin’s Kitchen, a catering firm in Queens, and is now opening a restaurant to showcase her Persian cooking simply steps from Bergdorf Goodman and Tiffany & Co. On the second ground of the area that housed Betony, and a few Russian eating places earlier than that, the eating room adorned with conventional Persian touches has about 60 seats. It’s the setting for dishes like kashk badmejon, sautéed eggplant; ash reshteh, a Persian noodle soup with greens; basmati rice dishes (chelo) with beef stew, hen or floor meat; and diverse kebabs typically aromatic with saffron and different seasonings. Ms. Rejali mentioned she plans to do the cooking. Her son Arta Kasra will deal with the administration facet of the enterprise. The restaurant has a bar and can serve largely beer and wine.
35 West 57th Road, 917-261-4600, nasrinskitchen.com.
Opening
Cecchi’s Bar and Grill
Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, who has been stationed on the entrance of the home at such locations as Raoul’s and Le Coucou, is about to take his years of expertise recounted in his current flagrant tell-all, “Your Desk Is Prepared,” to his personal restaurant within the former Café Loup area. He’s impressed by conventional New York names like Elaine’s and Mortimer’s. The chef, Cesar Balderas, will prove steaks, chops and seafood together with throwbacks like hen à la king, crab Louis and calves liver with bacon and onions. There’s a bar with Artwork Deco touches and a eating room with fanciful carnivalesque murals. (Opens Saturday)
105 West thirteenth Road, 212-931-6335, cecchis.nyc.
La Rubia
The 11 Howard Lodge, house to Le Coucou, has welcomed one other eating possibility on the Howard Road facet of the constructing. Andres Diaz, a restaurateur who additionally owns Her Title Was Carmen in SoHo, has opened this informal, Latin-inflected seafood spot. It options an open kitchen and banquettes with the previous inexperienced headboards from the Gramercy Park Lodge as backs. A chandelier is the work of the artist Julian Schnabel. The chef, Lucas Harrell — a San Francisco native with Cuban roots who labored at Coi, Petit Crenn and, in New York, on the Musket Room and Francie — is tasked with producing breakfast, lunch and dinner. Menu highlights embrace ceviches, a seafood tower referred to as the “grand Rubia,” crab and endive salad, and halibut poached in olive oil. The singular dessert is a flan, from the chef’s grandmother’s recipe.
11 Howard Lodge, 11 Howard Road (Lafayette Road), 347-429-1114, larubianyc.com.
Maison Solar
Somewhat over a 12 months in the past, Carlos Gasperi, a sommelier and a former scholar of German literature who had been doing rotating dinners, discovered a considerably extra everlasting area in SoHo for his dinner sequence with numerous cooks, notably Brendan Skibar. Now in a high-end kitchen counter setting in Brooklyn that had been the Chef’s Desk at Brooklyn Fare, however now redone, the chief chef, Michael Brogan, who labored on the Trendy and Momofuku Ko in New York and the Fats Duck in England, presents a nine-course tasting menu for $198. Beginning with foie gras and persevering with with luxuries like sea urchin, caviar, morels, dry-aged Rohan duck and optionally available Wagyu, it displays a Japanese and French strategy to nice eating.
200-3 Schermerhorn Road (Boerum Place), Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, 917-790-9689, maisonsunnyc.com.