"Roister, the most casual member of the Alinea Group family, will close this weekend ending an eight-year run in Fulton Market. The announcement comes a month after new Alinea Jason Weingarten took over after co-founder Nick Kokonas sold his ownership stake in the company. The restaurant’s last day of service will be Saturday, November 16. Plans are to replace Roister with a new restaurant called Fire which should open on Wednesday, November 20. Fire will exclusively serve a tasting menu with seven or eight courses, says Weingarten. The new restaurant will celebrate different open-fire cooking techniques beyond the hearth cooking Roister was built around. When Roister opened, the trend of wood-fired cooking at restaurants had just begun to emerge. Roister’s team rode those flames in 2017 to numerous best new restaurant lists and earned a Michelin-star rating from 2016 through 2019." - Ashok Selvam
