Sarabeth’s Opens In The Village On Tuesday

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY – Sarabeth’s, an Upper West Side original with restaurants on Central Park South, Park Avenue South, and Amsterdam Avenue, is opening its first new Manhattan location in 13 years on Tuesday, according to a press release.

The new restaurant, at 100 West Houston Street between Thompson Street and LaGuardia Place, will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday to Thursday, 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday.

The address is the former home of Jane, which closed over the summer after more than 20 years on Houston.

Sarabeth’s previously operated a Tribeca location, which closed earlier this year.

Executive Chef Freda Sugarman, a longtime member of the Sarabeth’s team, has crafted a menu featuring exclusive rotisserie options like rotisserie chicken with house-cut fries and black garlic au jus as well as a rotisserie turkey club with bacon jam and avocado on a croissant. It was jams and preserves, of course, which originally made Sarabeth's famous.

Diners will also find familiar favorites, including crab avocado, Caesar salad, chicken pot pie, and lemon & ricotta pancakes, as well as seasonal specialties.

In addition to its food menu, the new Village Sarabeth’s will serve cocktails, beer, and wine. Happy hour runs daily from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., and features a “Happy Hour Tower” of bar bites and small plates like goat cheese croquettes and chicken confit tacos.

An UWS Original

Sarabeth Levine is a real person who opened the first Sarabeth’s – a contemporary of Good Enough To eat – on the Upper West Side in 1981, back when it wasn’t “too soon to start talking about Amsterdam Avenue in the low 80’s…[a stretch] that seemed to be the stepchild of West Side renewal.”

Imagine that.

Levine was reportedly in the midst of a rough patch when her life made a remarkable turnabout: from feeling like a “colossal failure” to the driving force behind a restaurant empire worth tens of millions of dollars.

In 2014, the New York Times described Levine as looking like “a character out of ‘Doonsebury’” – the comic strip – and inhabiting a meticulously cared for Upper West Side apartment with her husband Bill.

“I have wood floors and they are very well cared for. You can eat off them, and that is not an exaggeration,” she said at the time.

Bill passed away in 2021. As of earlier this year, Sarabeth, now 80, is reportedly still baking

More information about the new Greenwich Village location is available here.