A Running List of New Restaurants That Opened in New York City, June 2021 - Eater NY

"The team behind popular Fort Greene hangouts Walter’s and Karasu has opened an all-day restaurant and bar, where they’re eschewing some traditional hospitality industry standards. “We want things to be a little more freeform,” says Danny Minch, who opened Nite Nite in May with partner Dylan Dodd. The restaurant, located in the former space of Apollonia, which the team closed ahead of the pandemic, seats incomplete parties, encourages groups to linger, and, if you’re lucky, might even take song requests from customers. “It’s not the kind of place where you you order an appetizer, entree, get your check and then leave,” he says. “We want you to hangout all night.” Barring a decadent tonkatsu pork cutlet, everything on the menu is priced under $20, while a daily happy hour offers dollar oysters and glasses of natural wine for $9 each. Apo, an adjoining coffee shop named after Apollonia, serves coffee from local roaster Variety and bears a sawed-off version of the original restaurant’s sign." - Luke Fortney