![]() ![]() Buzzy new Brooklyn tortilleria Sobre Masa is partnering and hosting the most popular birria destination in the city, Birria-Landia, for a pop-up on Thursday evening, where they’ll be adding bone marrow (!) to the birria. In a new interview, mayoral candidate Andrew Yang told the Post everything that NYC restaurant and bar owners want to hear right now: He supports dropping the restaurant and bar curfew, eliminating the food-with-drink rule, and wants to make takeout cocktails permanent. It is unclear whether any of Jing Fong’s unionized workers - who gathered together and protested publicly after news broke of the dining room shutdown - will be offered jobs at the new restaurant. Jing Fong - which also operates a second location on the Upper West Side - continued to offer outdoor dining, takeout, and delivery from the Chinatown restaurant after the dining room shut down, but those operations will stop at the end of May. The struggling Chinatown stalwart announced in March that it was closing its iconic dining room after being unable to work out a rent deal with the building’s landlords following a crushing year of plummeting sales due to the pandemic, plus ongoing anti-Asian rhetoric and xenophobic responses to the virus. Eater New York has reached out to Leo for more details. The address of the new outpost wasn’t disclosed in the report. In late June, Jing Fong plans to reopen at a smaller, 125-seat location. ![]() The newly renovated space has architectural elements from the 20 Elizabeth Street location, capacity for 125 seats, and is often transformed into a unique venue for weddings, birthdays, special events, corporate and holiday parties.Jing Fong plans to reopen soon in a new locationĮight hundred-seat dim sum destination Jing Fong will permanently clear out of its longstanding Elizabeth Street home on May 31, but the Chinatown restaurant won’t be totally dark for long, marketing director Claudia Leo tells the New York Post. In December 2021, Jing Fong re-opened in Chinatown at 202 Centre Street. At the same time, construction was starting at the new location. In May 2021, the 20 Elizabeth Street location shuttered as it was impossible to sustain the 800 seats restaurant. Truman was determined to keep his grandfather's restaurant running, even if it meant relocating and downsizing. With all gatherings paused and tourism non-existent, the giant ballroom had to rely solely on take-out and delivery. Located on the corner of 78th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, the 2,000 square feet space also has an outdoor patio.īut due to the 2020 pandemic, all Chinatown businesses struggled. In 2017, Jing Fong opened a second location on the Upper West Side. Truman, third-generation of the Lam family, has been at the helm since 2010 – modernizing the experience and making it accessible to a wider audience. In 2007, Shui Ling Lam passed the restaurant on to his son Ming Lam, who soon passed it to Truman Lam. ![]() This location was the largest dim sum and banquet hall in Chinatown for decades. With the new grand dining hall, Jing Fong was able to offer the traditional Chinese dining experience ̶ a social gathering meant to be shared – to many more guests. In 1993, the restaurant moved to 20 Elizabeth Street, a massive 25,000 square feet space with capacity for 800 seats. He was able to save the restaurant, which served as an important hub for the community. ![]() In 1980, the owners negotiated a deal with their master plumber, Shui Ling Lam - in exchange for forgiving their debts, he would become the restaurant’s majority shareholder. The first location in Chinatown was at 24 Elizabeth Street and had capacity for 150 seats.īut in a still developing Chinatown and amidst wider economic uncertainty, the original owners fell upon difficult times. Jing Fong has been a New York institution since 1978, specializing in dim sum and Cantonese cuisine. ![]()
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