Where To Eat This Weekend In NYC

WEST VILLAGE, NY — Looking for the best new place to grab dinner on Saturday night? Patch has you covered. Here's our weekly round-up of new restaurants and bars in New York City.

This week, check out a Carroll Gardens spot that serves a calzone-style dish, a Korean restaurant in the East Village, and more.

Due West

Location: 189 W. 10th St., West Village

What to drink: Fancy cocktails. Due West opened in the Village this week, bringing artisanal cocktails to a 65-seat space. The drink menu include options like the Old Diablo (made with tequila, lager and house-spiced grenadine) and a Build Your Own Old-Fashioned, where you can chose what spirits, sugar and bitters you'd like in your drink.

Panzerotti Bites

Location: 235 Smith St., Carroll Gardens

What to eat: Panzerotto. This new Carroll Gardens restaurant, which opens Sunday, serves southern Italian turnover panzerotto, an Italian dish similar to a calzone. The menu includes traditional panzerotto stuffed with tomato pulp, fresh mozzarella and oregano along with unique ones filled with smokes salmon, avocado, cream cheese and sesame seed and their Tartufo Panzerotto that has mozzarella, porcini mushrooms and black truffle oil. You can read more here.

Soogil

Location: 108 E. Fourth St., East Village

What to eat: Modern Korean food. Soogil opened this month in the East Village and is named for its chef and owner Soogil Lim. The menu mixes Korean flavors with French technique, according to the menu. The restaurant serves everything from a mung bean sprout Korean pancake to spicy tofu to Spanish mackerel.

West-bourne

Location: 137 Sullivan St., Soho

What to eat: Whatever you eat, it'll give back to the Manhattan community. The new all-day cafe West-bourne opened this week and, through a partnership with the local nonprofit The Door, a portion of everything you buy at West-bourne will benefit The Door to help fund a hospitality job training program for young people in the neighborhood. West-bourne says on its website that it'll eventually staff its restaurant with graduates from the program. The healthy menu includes options like brussels sprouts dish with tomato aioli and almonds and a grain dish made with farm grains, almond butter, mushrooms and kale.

La Goulue

Location: 29 East 61st St., Upper East Side

What to eat: French food from a restaurant that's returned after a hiatus. The beloved Upper East Side restaurant La Goulue closed after 36 years in the neighborhood in 2009. Now, it's back, and it should be quite similar to how diners remember the original. Thehttp://www.lagouluerestaurant.... neighborhood staple re-opens on Monday, with the same chef at the help preparing almost exactly the same menu, according to the New York Times. The only major difference? There's more space, including a skylit room with stained glass, the Times says.

Lead image credit: Oleg March via Due West; secondary image: Michael Tulipan via Soogil.