From September 16 to November 3, six new places opened on or near Hudson Street in the West Village. Four of them point upstate: a restaurant supplied by a farm in Hoosick Falls, a wine bar cooking with produce from a family ranch in Pine Plains, a brasserie run in collaboration with a farm in that farm's former event space on Christopher Street, and a market named for the Hudson Valley. Humm took over 435 Hudson, where En Japanese Brasserie had been for two decades. Farther north, Mémé closed its corner at Hudson and Bank after 16 years.
Four addresses between Leroy and Bank
| Address | What it was | What it is now | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 435 Hudson, between Leroy and Morton | En Japanese Brasserie, closed December 2024 | Humm | Opened October 10 |
| 518 Hudson, at West 10th | Justine's on Hudson, closed October 17 | Rosette Wine Bar | Opened November 3 |
| 569 Hudson, at West 11th | H. Valley market and café | Opened September 23 | |
| 581 Hudson, at Bank | Mémé, closed October 24 |
Three of the four addresses have new tenants, and each one points to a specific source upstate. They are listed here from south to north.
435 Hudson moved Eleven Madison Park's farm downtown
Humm is Daniel Humm's à la carte restaurant, opened with the Eleven Madison Park team in the former En space. Time Out New York reported that its seasonal produce comes from partners including Magic Farms in Hoosick Falls, New York, which also supplies Eleven Madison Park. Eater NY cited the restaurant's Resy description, which says Maciek Kobielski grows at Magic Farms only for the Humm restaurants. Resy wrote that the menu shifts a little depending on what that farm has.
Two dishes on the opening menu are crispy feta with sesame and shallot agrodolce, and fried eggplant with pickled green tomatoes. Executive chef Dmitri Magi, who has worked with Humm for 15 years, helps run the kitchen. The roast chicken for two comes from Amish farms in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and there is no red meat on the menu. Pierre Yovanovitch designed the room. The art includes work by Francesco Clemente and Rashid Johnson, along with pieces by Louise Bourgeois and Roni Horn.
You can sit in the dining room, the bar or the lounge. The bar and lounge serve shorter menus. In its October 26 review, The Infatuation praised the $108 chicken and the charred whole eggplant. It suggested walking in and ordering from the bar menu, which gives you a look at the art in the dining room without a reservation. When Humm opened, Resy listed dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 10:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
518 Hudson kept its owner and switched to the family farm
The corner at West 10th Street has the same owner and a new menu. Justine Rosenthal, daughter of the wine importer Neal I. Rosenthal, owned Justine's on Hudson, which Eater NY recorded as opening in 2023 and closing October 17. Village Reader reports that she also owns Rosette, which opened at the same address on November 3. Wine director Lauren Goldfarb, formerly of Jean-Georges, and chef Cali Faulkner run the room day to day. Faulkner owns Little Falcon in Brooklyn.
Rosette's produce comes from Mad Rose Ranch, the Rosenthal family farm in Pine Plains, New York. The wine list draws on the small European producers Rosenthal Wine Merchant has worked with for five decades, including Levet for Côte-Rôtie and Paolo Bea from Umbria. It also includes mature bottles from the family's own cellar. The half golden chicken is glazed with Mad Rose Ranch honey and miso and finished over charcoal, and the bread service includes brioche from Little Falcon. Eater NY singled out the oeuf en meurette and a pain d'épice tart with pears and frangipane. Rosette serves only wine, and a long by-the-glass list lets you try older bottles without buying a whole one.
569 Hudson sells the Hudson Valley to take home
The first two openings run on a farm at dinner. H. Valley, at West 11th Street, is the only one where you can carry that sourcing home. Chef Austin Johnson opened the 2,500-square-foot market and café on September 23 with Eytan Sugarman's Hudson Street Hospitality, the group behind Made in New York Pizza and White Horse Tavern. Johnson was previously executive chef at One White Street in Tribeca and its neighboring market, Rigor Hill Market.
Eater NY listed the stock. There are prepared dinners, ready-to-cook meats, sauces, pastas and breads, and a children's fridge with mac and cheese, baked fish sticks and turkey meatballs. The shop also makes its own dog food, Dion's Diet, from Hudson Valley trout, chicken, duck and vegetables.
"The dogs are customers, too." Austin Johnson, to Eater NY
In the morning, head baker Grayson Claes makes pastries and bread, and there is a bacon, egg and cheese on a biscuit. On weekends there is an omelet bar, a feature that started at Rigor Hill. H. Valley's website lists hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day. When it opened, Eater reported plans for private dinners, visiting chefs and pop-ups, with a larger dining program to follow later in 2026.
One block west, the farm's own space became a restaurant
The same pattern runs west of Hudson to 183 Christopher Street. Calabash is chef Camari Mick's Afro-Caribbean bakery and brasserie. It began daytime service October 2 and added dinner October 9. According to Eater NY, the 1,300-square-foot, 30-seat room used to be Heermance Farm's New York City event space. Calabash is a collaboration with that upstate farm, and Mick has asked it to grow specific produce for her, with sweet potatoes in mind for Thanksgiving. The chef de cuisine is Tajeh Porter. Mick explained the restaurant to Eater NY this way: "Being in Michelin-starred restaurants, you're cooking somebody else's story. Why wouldn't I want the opportunity to cook mine?"
Within a few blocks of each other, four rooms are tied to sources upstate:
- Magic Farms, Hoosick Falls, which supplies Humm at 435 Hudson
- Mad Rose Ranch, Pine Plains, which supplies produce to Rosette at 518 Hudson
- The Hudson Valley more broadly, including trout for the dog food, at H. Valley at 569 Hudson
- Heermance Farm, Calabash's collaborator at 183 Christopher
The rooms the farms did not replace
Not every change this fall involves a farm. Mémé closed its Hudson and Bank corner on October 24. Eater NY quoted the restaurant's goodbye to 16 years "in the most beautiful neighborhood" and noted that its Hell's Kitchen location stays open. AnnTremet Cake closed its bakery at 47 Eighth Avenue on October 12. Co-owners Annabelle Li and Peixin Lim still sell catering cakes from their production kitchen in Long Island City.
Two smaller openings are close by. El Camarón Peludo opened September 16 at 20 Cornelia Street, a Mexican seafood wine bar from co-owners Giovanni Cervantes and Tania Apolinar with chef Carlos Barrera. Cervantes told Eater NY that the narrow Cornelia Street space shaped the concept: "The first idea was to have a seafood restaurant, but it ended up being more of a seafood bar." Fillings opened a pop-up at 272 Bleecker Street on October 29 and planned to stay through the end of the year.
Between now and the first week of December
Two free or low-key outings on the calendar sit within walking distance of these openings:
- Pier 57 Discovery Tank, Hudson River Park. Hudson River Park lists Guided Gallery hours on Monday, November 23, and Tuesday, November 24. A December 5 session runs from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The programming is free and year-round, and each month has a theme. This one is "Hibernation."
- Village Nights at the Bitter End, 147 Bleecker Street. Village Preservation lists "The 1980s with Suzanne Vega and David Browne" for Sunday, December 6, at 6:30 p.m.
The Heather Domi Team follows the West Village block by block, including which corners on Hudson Street change hands and what replaces them. If you own on these blocks and want to talk about how this fall's changes on Hudson Street bear on your plans, Schedule a Consultation.
