The Hottest New Restaurants in Brooklyn Right Now (2024)

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Montague Diner joins the list this month

by Luke Fortney and Eater Staff Updated Apr 2, 2024, 12:31pm EDT

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Ilis comes from Mads Refslund, a founder of Noma in Denmark, said to be “the world’s best restaurant.” The restaurant serves a tasting menu built around ingredients like eel and mushroom that costs $295 per person and another $225 with a beverage pairing. Or, you can walk in like Eater’s critic did, and sit at the bar. The decor and service are formal and dramatic, giving Ilis the feel of a restaurant after Michelin stars.

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Misipasta is the new cafe from Missy Robbins and Sean Feeney, who own Brooklyn’s popular Italian restaurants Lilia and Misi. It’s really a pasta shop — there are fresh noodles, sauces, and cheeses on display — but there are seats at two counters and more tables in the backyard. The changing menu has grilled artichoke sandwiches and pasta, plus co*cktails and wine.

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Huda, from the owner of the decades-old Manhattan bistro La Bonne Soupe, opened in Williamsburg last fall. The restaurant serves a bistro menu with Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian influences. There’s a baked branzino with muhammara and shish barak, a meat dumpling dish remixed as beef tortellini. The kitchen is run by a chef who used to work at Le Crocodile and the Michelin-starred Del Posto.

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Formosa is a new Taiwanese restaurant run by the family behind the popular dumpling shop Sanmiwago in Manhattan’s Chinatown. There are seven kinds of dumplings on the menu: seafood, celery, chicken, and, the house specialty, yellow chive. If dumplings aren’t enough, there are household Taiwanese staples, like lu rou fan and scallion noodles.

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Montague Diner is a new kind of diner — places that scrap the parts of the business that don’t make sense to preserve the ones that do: breakfast for dinner, late-night hours, gumball machines, and retro booths. The restaurant, which was open as Happy Days Diner for 22 years, was saved from extinction by a couple of Brooklyn filmmakers and their friends. The new menu has corned beef hash, tuna melts, and a $99 french fries and champagne “deal.” It’s 2024, after all.

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Sailor is chef April Bloomfield’s comeback after a fallout at the Spotted Pig. The new spot, a partnershipwith restaurateur Gabriel Stulman, behind the Manhattan restaurants Jeffrey’s Grocery and Fairfax, has Bloomfield “at the top of her game,” according to Eater’s critic. Reservations can book out two weeks in advance, with some seats set aside for walk-ins.

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Radio Kwara is the follow-up to Dept of Culture, the Bed-Stuy dinner party restaurant that’s racked up James Beard nominations and a sizable waitlist. The good news: This second restaurant is much easier to get into. It’s just as delicious, too. The a la carte menu has goat pepper soup with noodles, a standout mushroom toast, and roasted guinea fowl. The establishment is BYOB with no corkage fee, so stop by next-door wine shop Radicle on the way in.

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After losing its star chef, then switching things up, Margot has landed in a nice place. The Fort Greene restaurant serves foods that are comforting without being too complicated, like pasta with rabbit ragu and skirt steak. Wine is a focus, too: The large bottle list bounces between France and California, with plenty of options around $60. If you’re a fan of the Brooklyn wine bars June and Rhodora, you’ll feel right at home: Both of the owners worked for the group that runs them.

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Ronan LeMay/Margot

Little Grenjai is a new Thai restaurant with a head-turning burger: It’s made with a pork and beef patty, Thai basil, pickled peppers, and a spicy sauce from shrimp heads. The sandwich is only served at lunch, but if you’re reading this from the bathroom at dinner, don’t run for the door. There are great options then, too, like the holy basil fried rice and a crunchy rice salad with sausage. The small restaurant has about 30 seats with reservations for dinner available on Resy.

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• Foursquare

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Ilis comes from Mads Refslund, a founder of Noma in Denmark, said to be “the world’s best restaurant.” The restaurant serves a tasting menu built around ingredients like eel and mushroom that costs $295 per person and another $225 with a beverage pairing. Or, you can walk in like Eater’s critic did, and sit at the bar. The decor and service are formal and dramatic, giving Ilis the feel of a restaurant after Michelin stars.

• Open in Google Maps

Evan Sung/Ilis

Misipasta is the new cafe from Missy Robbins and Sean Feeney, who own Brooklyn’s popular Italian restaurants Lilia and Misi. It’s really a pasta shop — there are fresh noodles, sauces, and cheeses on display — but there are seats at two counters and more tables in the backyard. The changing menu has grilled artichoke sandwiches and pasta, plus co*cktails and wine.

• Open in Google Maps

Luke Fortney/Eater NY

Huda, from the owner of the decades-old Manhattan bistro La Bonne Soupe, opened in Williamsburg last fall. The restaurant serves a bistro menu with Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian influences. There’s a baked branzino with muhammara and shish barak, a meat dumpling dish remixed as beef tortellini. The kitchen is run by a chef who used to work at Le Crocodile and the Michelin-starred Del Posto.

• Open in Google Maps

Louise Palmberg/Huda

Formosa is a new Taiwanese restaurant run by the family behind the popular dumpling shop Sanmiwago in Manhattan’s Chinatown. There are seven kinds of dumplings on the menu: seafood, celery, chicken, and, the house specialty, yellow chive. If dumplings aren’t enough, there are household Taiwanese staples, like lu rou fan and scallion noodles.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Luke Fortney/Eater NY

Montague Diner is a new kind of diner — places that scrap the parts of the business that don’t make sense to preserve the ones that do: breakfast for dinner, late-night hours, gumball machines, and retro booths. The restaurant, which was open as Happy Days Diner for 22 years, was saved from extinction by a couple of Brooklyn filmmakers and their friends. The new menu has corned beef hash, tuna melts, and a $99 french fries and champagne “deal.” It’s 2024, after all.

• Open in Google Maps

Sailor is chef April Bloomfield’s comeback after a fallout at the Spotted Pig. The new spot, a partnershipwith restaurateur Gabriel Stulman, behind the Manhattan restaurants Jeffrey’s Grocery and Fairfax, has Bloomfield “at the top of her game,” according to Eater’s critic. Reservations can book out two weeks in advance, with some seats set aside for walk-ins.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Robert Sietsema/Eater NY

Radio Kwara is the follow-up to Dept of Culture, the Bed-Stuy dinner party restaurant that’s racked up James Beard nominations and a sizable waitlist. The good news: This second restaurant is much easier to get into. It’s just as delicious, too. The a la carte menu has goat pepper soup with noodles, a standout mushroom toast, and roasted guinea fowl. The establishment is BYOB with no corkage fee, so stop by next-door wine shop Radicle on the way in.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Emma Orlow/Eater NY

After losing its star chef, then switching things up, Margot has landed in a nice place. The Fort Greene restaurant serves foods that are comforting without being too complicated, like pasta with rabbit ragu and skirt steak. Wine is a focus, too: The large bottle list bounces between France and California, with plenty of options around $60. If you’re a fan of the Brooklyn wine bars June and Rhodora, you’ll feel right at home: Both of the owners worked for the group that runs them.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

Ronan LeMay/Margot

Little Grenjai is a new Thai restaurant with a head-turning burger: It’s made with a pork and beef patty, Thai basil, pickled peppers, and a spicy sauce from shrimp heads. The sandwich is only served at lunch, but if you’re reading this from the bathroom at dinner, don’t run for the door. There are great options then, too, like the holy basil fried rice and a crunchy rice salad with sausage. The small restaurant has about 30 seats with reservations for dinner available on Resy.

• Open in Google Maps
• Foursquare

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