The Best New Places To Eat In New York City

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Eating out in New York City is daunting with thousands of restaurants, dozens of which open – or close – every week.

Every week, Patch rounds up a handful of the best new restaurants and bars that have recently arrived in the city. Here are this week's new spots to grab a dinner or a drink:

BISTRO PIERRE LAPIN

Location: 99 Bank Street, West Village

The neighborhood's newest restaurant is the creation of chef Harold Moore and offers up traditional French bistro staples – with a New York City twist.

Bistro Pierre Lapin opened at 99 Bank Street on Monday and is Moore's first restaurant despite a 20 year career in French cuisine. He opened it with co-owner Julia Grossman.

"The kitchen at Bistro Pierre Lapin feels like a grandmother's home, where the food is prepared with extra care and in small batches," Moore said.

"I hope that customers feel like they wandered into something special."

The chain has since expanded to 17 locations across Manhattan and one in Brooklyn Heights.

Maison Kayser's Chelsea spot will feature both its traditional French bakery offerings - complete with specialty breads baked on-site - and a coffee bar with a to-go selection of coffee, tea and chocolate.

The new location will also feature a full sit-down cafe serving breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner, Zaineh said.

Click here to view the bakery's full menu.

KLOM KLORM

Location: 181 Wyckoff Ave., Bushwick

The neighborhood got a new Thai restaurant this month and Yelpers mostly approve.

Klom Klorm — or "Tasty" in Thai — has been serving up traditional Thai staples on the corner of Wyckoff Avenue and Himrod Street for at least two weeks, according to their website and the reviews on Yelp.

The large menu features apps, soups, salads, noodles, fried rice, curries and sides and pretty much all the traditional dishes — such as chicken satay and shrimp pad thai — are there.

"Checked the place out last night after wishing and hoping a thai place would open in the hood for YEARS," wrote Brian H. "This restaurant mostly doesn't disappoint."

SOMTUM DER

Location: 380 Van Brunt St., Red Hook

This much-loved East Village Thai spot is opening its Brooklyn outpost in the next few weeks. The owner hasn't given an exact date, but the 40-seat eatery is expected by late June.

Somtum Der first opened in Bangkok in 2012 aiming to bring Isan Thai food — known for its spiciness — to the city, according to Serious Eats. The eatery then opened a New York City location in the East Village in 2013, where it received one-star in the New York Times and was awarded a Michelin Bib Gourmand this year.

Aside from the two spots in the city, Somtum Der also has outposts in Tokyo and Ho Chi Minh City.

BROOKLYN BELLY

1112 Cortelyou Road, Ditmas Park

Another place that's about to open is a po boy spot that closed its previous spot, which was down the street at 915 Cortelyou Road, in 2015 because of problems with its landlords.

Brooklyn Belly will be a pop-up shop inside the cafe Qathra, according to neighbors on Nextdoor.com "Same delicious fried shrimp, Whiting fish and jerk chicken, same chef," wrote Lois Sakany on the hyperlocal social media site. "Same everything."

Owner Odeis Stephenson this time, as he'll be sharing a chef's kitchen with Qathra and serving up fried shrimp po'boys, baskets of cracked conch, jerk chicken pizzas, fried mac and cheese and more,.

SNOWDAYS NYC

Location: 42-28 Bell Boulevard, Bayside

A popular New York City chain serving up "shaved ice cream" is expanding from Manhattan into Bayside.

Snowdays NYC, best known for putting a creamy twist on Korean and Taiwanese shaved ice, announced a new storefront "coming soon" in the neighborhood on its website.

The ice cream shop will open its doors at 42-28 Bell Blvd., formerly home to an AT&T Wireless storefront, by mid- to late-June, AssetCRG broker Michelle Abramov told QNS.com, which first reported the story.

The NYC chain's owner and founder Tony Quach launched first Snowdays in Manhattan's East Village after discovering the frozen treat - a combination of ice cream and shaved ice - while living in Los Angeles, according to the company's website

Lead image by Danielle Woodward/Patch