The teams behind Midtown hotel restaurant the Reading Room and casual Hell’s Kitchen spot Hold Fast have turned their attention to a new cozy restaurant and bar. By & By which opened in late February in Hell’s Kitchen at 644 10th Avenue, between West 45th and 46th streets.
Co-owners Niamh Daly, Brian Daly, and Jason Clark are running the table-service neighborhood restaurant with chef Ed Hala leading the kitchen. “We wanted to take a little bit of home comforts from different countries and give them our own style,” Niamh Daly tells Eater. The menu of snacks and small dishes includes the rabbit pie, their take on British beef pies; there’s also Korean beef skewers, miso-mushrooms, and lamb sliders. Then there’s wines and cocktails that’s sectioned out by spirit bases.
The raspberry mousse at By & By.
Patrick Dolande
French bistro revival brings back lunch
Chefs Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr are bringing lunch back to longtime revitalized French bistro Le Veau d’Or this week at the 129 East 60th Street, at Lexington Avenue in the Upper East Side starting on Tuesday, March 18. The daytime $85 prix fixe menu includes new dishes like tartare, duck confit, roast chicken, fishes of the day. Then there’s a la carte add-ons like salad or fries ($16) and $18 desserts like cheese and chocolate mousse. There will be a.m. cocktails as well. Reservations can be booked online. Lunch hours are from 11:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
Le Coucou has a new head chef
For the first time since Le Coucou opened, the Soho French restaurant has hired a new executive chef, Chris Emery. He worked with Jason Atherton in London, and became head chef at the Clocktower in New York, Atherton’s project with Stephen Starr (who also co-owns Coucou), before accepting this post.
This news comes along with whisperings that Coucou co-owner and chef Daniel Rose will be spending some time in Shelter Island this summer to help out at perennially popular waterfront restaurant Sunset Beach. The chef was spotted having dinner at Le Coucou last Friday night with hotelier Andre Balazs, who owns Sunset Beach. “We are friends and we are talking about doing things together,” Balazs tells Eater.
Rose has been splitting his time between Paris — where he gained fame with his now-closed restaurant Spring, before opening La Bourse et La Vie and now-closed Chez La Vieille — and New York, with Le Coucou. Reps for Starr promise that the chef is still fully committed to Coucou. “Every dish has hours of testing with Daniel,’’ they assured. —Beth Landman, contributor
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