An Owner at Libertine Is Opening a Wine Bar

Plus de Vin is opening this summer.

Husband-wife duo Carenn and Max Mackinnon, who collectively pull experience from Frenchette, Estela, Roberta’s, and Libertine, have paired up with San Antonio restaurateur Chad Carey, to open Plus de Vin this summer, which Punch recently named one to watch. (Max Mackinnon is currently a partner and the executive chef of Libertine but the two projects are not related.) The forthcoming Williamsburg wine bar is coming to 445 Graham Avenue, near Richardson Street, which was formerly the Mediterranean Pheasant restaurant space that closed following the owners’ pivot to catering. Carenn Mackinnon tells Eater the bar will be walk-in-only with dishes like chilled shrimp with herb sauce, pork rillettes, and pork sausage with charred corn. Last week, the team previewed a version of the bar over in Austin at a pop-up. — Emma Orlow, reporter

An acclaimed falafel shop expands

Falafel Tanami, a south Brooklyn falafel shop that landed on the New York Times top 100 restaurant list, is opening in Manhattan. The restaurant has signage up at 415 Greenwich Street, at Laight Street, in Tribeca, Tribeca Citizen reports. The original location opened in Midwood, Brooklyn, in 2018. In 2023, Pete Wells of the Times turned the small restaurant into a citywide destination when he called its homemade falafel and pita “extraordinary” in his annual ranking of the city’s restaurants.

Two new places for a dollar slice

The dollar slice isn’t dead yet. Two pizzerias — BD Star Pizza and 99 Cent Pizza in the East Village — are once again selling slices of pizza for a dollar. Owner Sana Ullah tried selling pizza for a dollar when he opened 99 Cent Pizza last year. Within two months, he had raised the price to $1.50 due to inflation. Customers soured, and four months ago, he changed the price back to a dollar. “If you help someone,” Ullah told the New York Post, “then someone will help you.”

All’Antico Vinaio heads to Nomad

All’Antico Vinaio is on its way to becoming a New York chain. The famous sandwich shop, which started in Florence, Italy, in 1989, has a new location opening on Thursday at 7 W. 25th Street, near Broadway, in Nomad. This is the fifth All’Antico Vinaio in New York City, following openings in the West Village, Midtown, and the Upper East Side. The new shop will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily.