The Most Hotly Anticipated Restaurants Opening In NYC in 2020

NEW YORK CITY – Even in a city packed with hundreds of world class restaurants, the arrival of more causes a buzz.

The Daily Meal has unveiled its national list of “The Most Anticipated Restaurants of 2020," and the online food and dining site included seven coming to NYC.

Here are the new restaurants you should be most excited about in 2020, according to the Daily Meal’s report:

Quality Bistro (New York, New York)

What the Daily Meal said:
Restaurateur Michael Stillman and his restaurant group, Quality Branded, run popular New York restaurants Quality Meats, Quality Italian and Quality Eats. They’ll be adding even more quality with Quality Bistro, projected to open in February in Midtown Manhattan. The 200-seat restaurant will be a “brasserie-style French steakhouse,” with dishes including crab cake paillard, green garlic escargots, Manila clams marinières, long-bone short rib chasseur with Thai basil salad and a porterhouse au poivre for two. The design will be reminiscent of France's Belle Époque era.

The Tyger (New York, New York)

What the Daily Meal said:
Restaurateurs Eddy Buckingham and Jeff Lam (of hotspot Chinese Tuxedo) will open a 3,000-square-foot casual Southeast Asian all-day restaurant on Howard Street at the SoHo/Chinatown border. The menu from chef Paul Donnelly (who spent time cooking in Southeast Asia) will include Vietnamese-style yellow curry with butternut squash, whole grilled squid with green nahm jim and sour mango, and a chicken and shrimp relish with coconut and crispy betel leaves.

Da Toscano (New York, New York)

What the Daily Meal said:
Chef Michael Toscano helmed the kitchen at New York’s Perla and his wife Caitlin worked front of house at restaurants including Per Se and Del Posto (one of America’s best Italian restaurants). Together, the couple will open da Toscano in Greenwich Village in the same space that once housed Perla. The full-service Italian restaurant will serve lunch and dinner with a large seafood selection and an extensive housemade pasta program.

Rule of Thirds (Brooklyn, New York)

What the Daily Meal said:
The teams behind Sunday in Brooklyn, Yuji Ramen and Okonomi are joining forces to open Rule of Thirds in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. This all-day Japanese restaurant will include seasonal bento boxes and super trendy Japanese souffle pancakes during the day and izakaya-style and large-format dishes meant to be shared (including hot pots) for dinner. Sake, natural wines and cocktails that “feature a range of American classics that draw on Japanese influence for techniques and flavor” will be offered.

The Vestry (New York, New York)

What the Daily Meal said:

Chef Shaun Hergatt hasn’t run a public restaurant in the city since 2016. But the man who ran the kitchens at New York’s acclaimed SHO and Juni is coming back with The Vestry. The 80-seat dinner-only restaurant and bar inside the Dominick Hotel will be seasonally driven and American with Japanese influences. The menu will focus primarily on seafood and vegetables, with dishes like grilled maitake mushrooms with surf clams and daikon sprouts, and tilefish with edamame, pickled daikon radish and cilantro.

Sanpoutei (New York, New York)

What the Daily Meal said:
Sanpoutei will be a 50-seat ramen joint imported from Japan’s Niigata Prefecture, and will be coming to the East Village in mid-January. Its signature ramen is made with a niboshi dashi (dried baby sardines). Other dishes will include handmade gyoza, edamame with Sichuan peppercorn, dake drunken chicken and mapo ramen. Sake from Niigata will also be on offer.

Dhamaka (New York, New York)

What the Daily Meal said:
Dhamaka, a casual 60-seat restaurant, will open inside the new Essex Market on New York’s Lower East Side with a focus on regional Indian home cooking. At the helm will be chef Chintan Pandya of Rahi and Adda Indian Canteen.

In order to compile the list, the Daily Meal reached out to dining publicists and industry figures with expert knowledge of the most anticipated American restaurants of 2020.

The full list of anticipated restaurants is available on the Daily Meal.