![]() Robert Sietsema/Eater NY Frostįrost, one of Williamsburg’s oldest Italian restaurants, closed this summer after more than 60 years. “I had big shoes to fill following Liebrandt,” said Glocker, “but I think we made a mark there.”Īt Frost, shots of espresso came with a bottle of liqueur. Chef and owner Markus Glocker, now the chef partner in Koloman in Nomad, rounded out the trio. The restaurant was a partnership between John Winterman, a former maître d’ at Daniel, and Nieporent, behind megahit chain Nobu and Tribeca Grill. Open since 2014, Bâtard earned a Michelin star the following year and was crowned the best new restaurant in America by the James Beard Foundation. Broadway, who held onto that Tribeca address since the early ’80s, from its evolution as Montrachet its fine-dining run as Corton with chef Paul Liebrandt through the near decade of Bâtard. It was a long run for Drew Nieporent at 238 W. ![]() Here are some of the biggest closures of the summer, arranged in chronological order. We’ve selected a handful that made an outsized impact, whether it’s for their food, the community they created, or how they influenced this city’s conversation about restaurants. Some of the restaurants we lost were open for decades others didn’t make it six months. Operators face new challenges, too, like a slow summer of business, in which New Yorkers have been more conservative with spending locally while vacationing abroad without restrictions on travel. Together, they paint a picture of an industry struggling to recover from three years of the pandemic, an ongoing labor shortage, and the rising cost of supplies chalked up to inflation. From June to August, Eater documented more than 70 restaurant and bar closures in New York City. ![]()
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