New Restaurants in SoHo, Fall 2026: West of West Broadway

In one September, SoHo's western blocks added a cacao cafe, an all-day Italian salumeria, a Greek seafood dining room, a steakhouse and a two-story cocktail lounge. Four of them sit between West Broadway and Sixth Avenue, on or near Thompson, Sullivan and MacDougal. The fifth, Bar Leone, is farther west still, at Broome and Watts. In the same weeks, the fashion brands opening new stores chose Mercer Street and Broadway.

So the neighborhood split along a clear line this fall. Retail opened on the eastern grid. Meals opened on the western one. Put together, the new western rooms cover a full day: the doors open at 8 a.m. on Spring Street, and the last seating happens Wednesday through Saturday on Broome.

Eight in the Morning on Spring Street

The day starts on a short stretch of Spring Street, where two September openings sit a block apart.

At 178 Spring, near Thompson, ÓOL opened on September 9. It's a shop built around single-origin cacao. Founder Ilana Gutierrez, who is from Mexico City, sources the cacao from Ecuador, Colombia and Belize. She serves it as a drink made with milk or water and finishes it with spiced syrups such as chile or ginger. The pastries come from a partnership with Breads Bakery and use the same cacao: a cacao swirl, a cacao chop cookie and a cacao croissant. The space has two floors, and Eater reports that tastings and workshops are planned for the near future.

A block west, at Spring and Sullivan, La Salumeria Soho opened on Friday, September 25. Chef Salvo Lo Castro owns it and runs it next door to Casasalvo, the restaurant he opened in SoHo in the summer of 2025. Italian sandwiches cost $15, and the hours run from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. Italian wine, aperitivi and cheese tastings fill the evening. Those hours make it the first of the new western rooms to open in the morning and one of the last to close.

The other bakery opening of the month went to the far eastern edge. Rye by Martin Auer opened September 10 at 285 Lafayette Street, at Jersey Street. Austrian baker Martin Auer sells rye loaves for $60 each, made with flour milled in Austria and no wheat, plus slices of rye topped with spreads such as salmon roe or butter and chives. Next to a $15 sandwich on Sullivan, that loaf price shows how differently the two sides of the neighborhood opened this month.

The Afternoon Belongs to Wooster Street

From Spring Street, the walk east to the galleries is short, and this October they're running some of the season's strongest programs.

At 134 Wooster Street, Hauser & Wirth has its newer SoHo space in a single-story building put up in 1920 as a truck garage. Rita Ackermann's The Chemical Alphabet is on view through Saturday, October 17. Admission is free, no booking is needed, and the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. On Wednesday, October 7, at 6 p.m., Ackermann appears in conversation with The Wooster Group, the theater company.

The same gallery is behind the most established table in this part of SoHo. Manuela, its restaurant and bar at 130 Prince Street on the corner of Wooster, opened in October 2024. In a month when almost every notable room on these blocks is brand new, it's the reference point for the others.

Farther down Wooster, The Drawing Center at No. 35 hosts The World Is The Work, its benefit exhibition, from October 7 to 11. A gallery party follows on October 13 from 6 to 9 p.m., and bidding closes at noon on October 14. Nicodim Gallery, at 15 Greene Street, opens Teresa Murta's A Taste of Doubt on October 15. It runs through November 25.

Two Owners Remade Their Own Rooms, and a Chef Opened His First

Dinner brings the walk back west, and the two biggest openings there share an unusual backstory. Both owners took over rooms they already ran.

At 199 Prince Street, restaurateur Cobi Levy turned his own Little Prince into ROMY, a small steakhouse. Eater gives its debut as September 22. Time Out gave September 29 as the official opening date. Designer Rafael de Cárdenas redid the room in oxblood and black lacquer, with burled wood, dark marble, bronze and artwork by George Condo.

Chef Lucrezia Stella runs the kitchen. She grew up in her family's restaurants in Rome and has also cooked in a Michelin-starred kitchen on the Amalfi Coast. Her menu includes a 12-ounce Niman Ranch New York strip au poivre, a 20-ounce Westholme Farms Wagyu ribeye and a dry-aged Snake River Farms Wagyu porterhouse. Kaluga caviar service, served with onion-chive dip and housemade potato chips, costs $150. Miroo Kim, formerly of Atomix, created the cocktails, including a Brown Butter Carajillo. Adam Waddell of Eleven Madison Park and Spencer Choi-Schagrin of Jean-Georges lead the wine program.

At 527 Broome Street, at Watts, Andres Diaz did the same thing with his 4,800-square-foot Her Name Was Carmen, which reopened September 10 as Bar Leone. The upper floor is midcentury in style, covered in corduroy velvet, with a rotating art display and martinis made with caviar and Seventy One gin. Downstairs is a rouge-toned Italian disco with vinyl banquettes and a lacquered chrome bar. Both floors serve the same small plates, including Kumamoto oysters, Beluga and Ossetra caviar and a dry-aged short rib burger. DJ Luigi Ambrosi plays everything from Neapolitan jazz to funk. Bar Leone is open Wednesday through Saturday from 6 p.m.

Back east on Grand Street, at No. 32 on the corner of Thompson, Greek chef Nicholas Poulmentis opened Kythira, his first restaurant of his own, on September 21. The menu leans on seafood, with ceviche, oysters and stuffed calamari, alongside spinach pies, goat cheese gnocchi, lamb chops and a vegetarian moussaka. There's also a Mediterranean brunch. The posted hours start at 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with service until 10:30 p.m. early in the week and 11:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. On Sunday it runs from 3 to 9 p.m. Reservations are on OpenTable. Before it opened, Poulmentis said he wanted to keep the building's rustic exterior.

Meanwhile, Mercer Street Got Fashion

The eastern grid had a busy September too, but nearly all of it was retail. Polish designer Magda Butrym opened her first New York store, which takes up three floors at 170 Mercer Street. Victoria Beckham opened her second store down the block at 150 Mercer. The Babylist Showroom opened at 477 Broadway. Re/Done ran a temporary retail-technology lab at 475 Broome Street from September 11 to 30. And on September 29, Commercial Observer reported that JW Anderson had leased 138 Wooster Street for its first stand-alone U.S. store. No opening date has been announced.

The two halves didn't overlap. None of these eastern openings serves food, and none of the western ones sells clothes. The Broadway corridor did get one seasonal change: SoHo Broadway and the Horticultural Society of New York replanted its planters with celosia, marigolds, ornamental beets, strawflowers and dusty miller.

The Western Blocks' October Calendar

Grand Street could get busier before the month ends. Straker's NYC, the first restaurant outside the U.K. from chef Thomas Straker, is expected to open in October at 59 Grand Street, at West Broadway. Its website posts hours, but reservations are listed as coming soon. The sample dinner menu includes oysters, flatbreads, a crab-topped potato galette, langoustines and grilled steaks. If it opens on schedule, it will sit about a block east of Kythira.

• October 7, 6 p.m.: Rita Ackermann in conversation with The Wooster Group at Hauser & Wirth, 134 Wooster Street.
• October 7 to 11: The World Is The Work at The Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street.
• October 15: Teresa Murta's show opens at Nicodim Gallery, 15 Greene Street.
• October 17: Last day of The Chemical Alphabet at Hauser & Wirth.
• October 27, 6:30 p.m.: NYC DOT presents its proposal for a two-way bike lane on Grand Street to Community Board 2. The lane is part of the Canal Street Phase 1 plan and is still only a proposal.
• October 31, 7 to 11:30 p.m.: NYC DOT's Halloween street list includes the 53rd Annual Village Halloween Parade on Sullivan Street between Broome and Spring. That's the same stretch of Sullivan where La Salumeria opened in September.

For a longer view of how these blocks fit into the neighborhood, our SoHo neighborhood guide and our earlier piece on why SoHo's summer openings fit in 800 square feet carry the story back to the spring.

If you own on Thompson, Sullivan or the west end of Grand, this fall's openings are changing your blocks, and Andrew Azoulay follows that block by block. Request a private consultation, and we'll go through what the new restaurants on your street mean for your home.