NYC New Restaurant Openings, August 2025 | Eater NY

"A huge new Afro-Caribbean restaurant led by chef Rúnar Pierre Heriveaux, an alum of Iceland’s Michelin-starred Reykjavík’s Óx, showcasing his Haitian heritage and French training across a menu full of green curry shrimp, fruity hamachi, and hot honey peanut chicken; the bar, which claims to be the city’s first equipped with a robot bartender, delivers beachy cocktails complete with coconut water ice cubes and ginger wine floats, and the three-story dining room drips with velvety, tropical-themed furniture and chandeliers, set to an Afrobeats soundtrack and sporadic live music." - Nadia Chaudhury