Jean-Georges Vongerichten is bringing his ABC concept to Brooklyn
Manhattan’s Flatiron area has been the unofficial headquarters of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s ABC concepts, which include his seasonal dining room ABC Kitchen, his Latin-inspired restaurant ABC Cocina and his plant-forward spot ABCV. Now the prolific French chef and restaurateur is bringing all three across the bridge in a massive new 300-seat restaurant, JGV’s first foray into Brooklyn.
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Hot off the news that the famous toque will be repurposing that old 18,000 square-foot Spice Market space in the Meatpacking District and turning it into a swanky, members-only club dubbed Chez Margaux, Vongerichten will be bringing his ABC restaurant trilogy to Dumbo, at 55 Water Street to be exact, which, if you’re a Time Out New York regular, you know to also be the building complex where you can find our very own Time Out Market New York.
Per Eater, Lois Freedman, head of Jean-Georges management, confirmed that the new restaurant is still in the design phase and construction on the project will start this season. The still-to-come eatery will reportedly be run in a similar vein as the chef’s most recent London entry, which opened last month at the Emory Hotel in Knightsbridge: that restaurant, called ABC Kitchens, incorporates “delicious elements” of all three existing ABC concepts, ABCV, ABC Cocina and the O.G. ABC Kitchen.
That London menu currently boasts dishes like tacos stuffed with Dover sole and apple slaw, three-cheese pizza dotted with wild garlic and asparagus, and a celeriac katsu with grainy mustard aioli and something called a “spice condiment,” so it will be interesting to see if the New York newcomer mirrors that wide-ranging selection.
The Dumbo location will be Vongerichten’s first Brooklyn restaurant—he has thirteen in Manhattan, including his fine-dining flagship Jean-Georges as well as Nougatine, Perry Street, The Mark, The Fulton and the Tin Building food hall, among others. The celebrity chef also recently debuted Four Twenty Five, a luxe new Park Avenue dining room, this past December.