A Hangzhou favorite with 200 global locations is now open in NYC
After 200 locations throughout its native China, Grandma’s Home is finally bringing its homestyle Hangzhou cooking to Manhattan with a new Flatiron location. Run by Julia Zhu, the daughter of one of the restaurant’s founders, the inaugural New York outpost will follow brand tradition and spotlight regional “flavors from the land of fish and rice,” all in a modern setting.
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The menu combines culinary influences from throughout northern and southern China: think green tea claypot chicken, hong shao rou (Shanghai-style braised pork belly), soy-glazed crispy fish, scallion oil noodles and more. New for New York is a whole crab dish, served with two shell-on crabs and homemade rice cakes, and just in time for summer, the team is adding shaved ice to their dessert menu.
The restaurant has just launched a full-time lunch service (available weekdays from 11:30am to 3pm), with specials like a lunch set with a choice of an appetizer (tofu skin rolls or lotus root with sticky rice) and choice of a protein (chili pepper chicken, sweet-and-sour pork, mapo tofu or kung pao shrimp), all served with choy sum, white rice and pickled cucumbers with apple.
To complement the food, the beverage program focuses on low-ABV cocktails inspired by Chinese folktales, such as Uncle Song’s Sippy Cup, made with Oka Kura Japanese Bermutto Sake Vermouth, Voume Primo Vermouth, ginger, honey and lime. There’s also a long list of non-alcoholic drinks, like the Red Foil Cap (made with yogurt, Young Hyson tea, lemon, lime, and soda) and the Oolong Tonic (oolong cold brew, grapefruit, vanilla, lemon and tonic).
Check out some of the yummy-looking food-and-drink offerings from Grandma’s Home below, as well as snaps of the restaurant’s contemporary dining room, filled with art by young Chinese artists from around the world, including Peter Chan and Zhang Guang-yu.
