Beverly Hills hotspot Croft Alley frequented by…
A Beverly Hills hotspot common with stars like Leonardo DiCaprio, Harrison Ford and Kendall Jenner is coming to Manhattan’s stylish Soho neighborhood next month, Side Dish has realized.
Restaurateur Michael Della Femina’s Croft Alley – which serves “inspired comfort food” – is slated to open at 210 Sixth Ave. at the nook of Prince Street. Greek eatery Lola Taverna stood there until it shuttered in June.
Della Femina’s father Jerry Della Femina is the 89-year-old advert legend whose memoir “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor” impressed the “Mad Men” sequence. Della Femina père owned an eponymous East Hampton eatery that closed in 2011 after nearly twenty years in business.
Beverly Hills hotspot Croft Alley (above) is coming to Soho this November. Croft Alley
At around 1,500 sq. toes, Croft Alley may have indoor and hopefully outside seating, with entrances on MacDougal Street and Sixth Avenue.
Della Femina’s companions are Adam Rubin, Andrew Shanfeld, Madison Bright and chef Phuong Tran. The new restaurant will serve all-day fare and function the Croft Alley signature menu with tuna melts and a $30 order of delicate scrambled eggs, black truffles, avocado, prosciutto and toast, along with new dishes tailor-made for NYC.
Della Femina tells Side Dish that he has always been drawn to the neighborhood – his grandfather grew up proper by the positioning of the new restaurant, in a building that is home to Blue Ribbon Sushi today.
Della Femina beforehand owned The Stork Club on Sullivan Street, where he launched StoreFront Productions. Its current tasks embrace “In the cannabiss,” where director/producer pal Michael Mailer – the son of the late novelist Norman Mailer – has joined the solid. It’s now filming in both LA and NYC.
Croft Alley serves “inspired comfort food.” Fried chicken wraps, above. Courtesy of Croft Alley
Croft Alley will also serve a spicy tuna bowl on the menu. Courtesy of Croft Alley
The streaming sequence is a behind-the-scenes look at the chaos and characters who inhabit a “barely fictional” restaurant with “eccentric staff, demanding investors, intrusive neighbors, and the mounting chaos of hospitality life.”
Croft Alley has been in LA for 11 years – first in West Hollywood at the Standard Hotel, where it was open 24/7 until the pandemic hit, and now in Beverly Hills, which Della Femina described as “a neighborhood that was desperate for what we provide – fun, casual and unpretentious, with delicious food.”
In Beverly Hills, Croft Alley is a breakfast and lunch spot with personal occasions at night time, as nicely as a weekly cocktail membership.
Restaurateur Michael Della Femina said he has always been drawn to the Soho neighborhood. “We’ve been looking for the right space for four years,” he said. Courtesy of Croft Alley
The New York location shall be open for dinner, too.
Della Femina, who grew up in New York, said increasing to the Big Apple was a natural step, one thing his LA shoppers have been asking for.
“We’ve been looking for the right space for four years,” the restaurateur remarked.
He called his dad a “huge inspiration” whose former East Hampton restaurant is his all-time favourite.
Croft Alley waffle Courtesy of Croft Alley
“I can still taste some of those dishes,” said Della Femina, including that a signature household dish might also be on the menu.
The decor will doubtless embrace a Nineteen Forties radio that has been set up at each household restaurant, he said.
We hear… that some beloved NYC eateries are now offering brunch, New Yorkers’ favourite weekend sport, Italian model. In Midtown, Fresco by Scotto, the eatery owned by Good Day New York’s Rosanna Scotto and her household, is launching a Saturday brunch this weekend at 34 E. 52nd St. Think champagne, live music, DJ units and dishes like cacio e pepe omelettes, tiramisu pancakes with mascarpone and cocoa, egg toast with shaved truffle and fontina on brioche, and a brunch pizza bianca topped with truffle bechamel, wild mushrooms and a sunny-side egg, as nicely as a Mediterranean chopped salad — all from govt chef Orlando Alvarez. “Bottle service specials” will also be accessible…
Fresco by Scotto, the eatery owned by Good Day New York’s Rosanna Scotto and her household, is launching a Saturday brunch this weekend at 34 E. 52nd St.
We hear… In the West Village, Dell’anima, the favored Italian restaurant that launched in 2007 and most not too long ago relocated to a stylish new 52-seat spot at 18 Cornelia St. this past summer time, is launching weekend brunch — half of the eatery’s revival by longtime companions Andrew Whitney, the manager chef; Danir Rincon, the overall supervisor; and Jacob Cohen. Dishes embrace uovo al purgatorio, baked eggs in a tomato base with pancetta and herbs; uovo funghi, poached eggs in a parmesan polenta with mushrooms; a smash burger with pancetta, fried egg, remoulade, carmelized onion and fontina; and French toast. They’ve also launched new fall cocktails like “Fall Into It,” with rum, pomegranate juice, spiced demerara syrup, cranberry juice and lemon; and “Rose That Negroni,” with gin, lillet, aperol and rose.
Dell’anima in the West Village is launching weekend brunch. MATTHEW BOROWICK
We hear… that chef and restaurateur Djamel Omari’s Canto West Village – the favored Italian hotspot recognized on TikTok for its frozen espresso martinis with marscapone cheese and its brilliant pink door – now has a 120-square-foot sidekick. Canto Café opened next door, at 117 West Houston St., in September. Open Wednesday through Sunday from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., the new café is making a title for its fashionable breakfast chicken Caesar salad with an egg wrap.
Chicken Caesar salad with an egg wrap. Canto Café
Lunch choices embrace soups and house-made pastas. Other dishes embrace beef-chopped cheese with ground beef, inexperienced peppers, garlic aioli, tomatoes with chipotle sauce on ciabatta bread and a caponata pasta salad with fusilli, contemporary mozzarella, olives, grape tomatoes, onions, sun-dried tomatoes, zucchini and pesto sauce. Grab and go or keep at one of three window seats. For those who can’t make it to the West Village, there’s also an outpost, Canto Upper West Side, at 2014 Broadway.
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