The restaurateurs Jon Neidich and Craig Atlas of Golden Age Hospitality, known for the Nines, Acme and Elvis, have added this airy trattoria style bar and restaurant with rattan chairs that spill out onto the sidewalk, ready for a warm-weather spritz or sgroppino. It’s a collaboration with Paradise Projects. The executive chef, Nicole Gajadhar, taps a familiar Italian playbook for fried zucchini, rigatoni with sausage and peas, beef carpaccio, veal Milanese for two and ricotta cheesecake.
5 Avenue A (East Houston Street), barbianchinyc.com.
Mustard Indian Eatery
There’s a tandoor on view in the open kitchen, the walls are faced with subway tiles, and light floods in from the windows at this Indian spot. It combines the tried-and-true — butter chicken, tandoori shrimp, seekh kebab, assorted biryanis, gulab jamun — with less familiar fare like slow-cooked goat with chiles, Goan shrimp curry and fish in a banana leaf. A varied array of chutneys are offered. The owner, Ruhel Amin, has other Indian restaurants, and has appointed Sharmeen Rahman and Lisha Khondokar to be chefs. The restaurant is B.Y.O.B., unless you prefer the house’s Calcutta lemonade. (Wednesday)
2113 Frederick Douglass Boulevard (114th Street), 212-470-1568, mustardnyc.com.
Jang by Chef Tae Woo Lee
A six-course tasting menu ($130) by the chef Tae Woo Lee, who puts a French designer spin on Korean fare with dishes like gochujang bouillabaisse, is now being served at Spring Place, a membership club with dining and drinking facilities and work spaces in TriBeCa. The new restaurant is open to the public and over coming months will welcome guest chefs.
Spring Place, 6 St. Johns Lane (Canal Street), 212-257-5620.
Cariñito
You cannot accuse artificial intelligence of coming up with this taco menu: smoked pastrami with Chinese mustard; Thai shredded pork belly with pork chicharrón and mint; or spiced pork belly with hoisin, Sriracha and pickles, among others. They’re at a six-month pop-up from a Mexico City restaurant known for its mash-up of Southeast Asia and Mexico, which has done pop-ups in a number of cities but not in the United States until now.
86 University Place (12th Street), @carinito.tacos.
