Phoenix Palace
Chinese restaurant · Chinatown
85 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Highlights
Cantonese American with HK cinema vibe, unique dishes
Cantonese American with HK cinema vibe, unique dishes
"Like sister restaurant Potluck Club, Phoenix Palace is a modern homage to Chinatown. It’s a little more ambitious, but similar in spirit and just down the road, with scalloped velvet booths, a vintage jukebox, and a bulb-lined marquee entrance worthy of a Hitchcock premiere. Plan a group dinner here, and share some inventive Cantonese American food (that's sometimes a little Italian, too), like olive-freckled yaotiew, calamari-style cuttlefish, and lobster sticky rice littered with guanciale. It all works seamlessly." - team infatuation
"Sibling to Potluck Club, the dressed-up Phoenix Palace offers dishes like salt-and-pepper cuttlefish, a flavorful baby bok choy salad, chilled tofu, lobster sticky rice, and chili crab noodles. It’s housed in a space that opened in 2024, with a marquee sign that displays the name, and a host stand that’s built inside a box office." - Eater Staff
"Bowery was once lined with Chinese-language movie theaters, and this younger sibling of Potluck Club cleaves to the same show biz theme, complete with a box office in front, movie-lobby feel to the premises, and dramatic seating in pools of light. The brief menu runs to transformed Chinese American food — such dishes as you tiao shot with black olives, salt and pepper cuttlefish, and lobster sticky rice." - Robert Sietsema
"Phoenix Palace is from the team behind Potluck Club, one of our favorite Cantonese-American restaurants, which riffs on traditional dishes. The new spot, also in Chinatown, also plays with Cantonese classics like lobster sticky rice, and chili crab noodles, but in a slightly more grown-up looking space." - will hartman
"Quick, someone jerry-rig an award for best new youtiao. Once the thing is finished, hand it to Phoenix Palace, where the fried dough sticks are littered with olives and served with a sweet lap cheong jam on the side. Like sister restaurant Potluck Club, this place is a modern homage to Chinatown, sporting a vintage jukebox, an indoor pavilion, and a marquee entrance worthy of a Hitchcock premier. Plan a group dinner here, and share some inventive Cantonese American food, like calamari-style cuttlefish and lobster sticky rice littered with guanciale." - molly fitzpatrick, bryan kim, neha talreja, willa moore, will hartman, sonal shah
