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Plus de Vin, a new Williamsburg wine bar, opens today, August 12 at 445 Graham Avenue, near Richardson Street. It comes from Carenn Mackinnon, an Estela and Frenchette alum, alongside her husband, Max Mackinnon (chef and partner at Libertine), and San Antonio restaurateur Chad Carey. (The bar operates independently from Libertine.) An opening menu lists chilled shrimp with herb sauce, pork rillettes, and Peekytoe crab toast with celery, horseradish, and trout roe. Hazelnut chocolate mousse is for dessert.
Commerce returns uptown
Harold Moore, who shut down his West Village restaurant Commerce nine years ago, is reviving it as Cafe Commerce — only this time on the Upper East Side. Moore announced the news via Instagram: “This isn’t just a move; it’s an evolution of everything you loved about Commerce, now crafted into something even more special,” he wrote. Cafe Commerce will open this fall at 964 Lexington Avenue, between East 70th and 71st streets, East Side Feed reported.
Only Love Strangers rebrands
Only Love Strangers, a bi-level jazz bar and restaurant, is already switching things up after debuting this spring. The restaurant, which served Mediterranean food, and was owned by several members of Málà Project, including founder Amelie Kang, is reportedly turning the ground-level into a Mexican restaurant called Comida Corida, LowerEastSide.com reports. The jazz bar downstairs will remain.
Two bagel shops coming to North Brooklyn
PopUp Bagels serves bagels meant to be ripped and dipped. Their growth has only continued, with locations in Greenwich Village, the Upper West Side, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Long Island. Now, the team has announced their expansion to Williamsburg; they haven’t announced the address yet. Meanwhile, Bagel Joint, a pop-up at the McGolrick Park and Park Slope farmer’s markets — known for bagels with an Asian spin in flavors like miso — is also opening a standalone in Greenpoint in the fall at 230 Calyer Street, near McGuinness Boulevard, the duo tells Eater.
