Manhattan’s Latest Food Hall To Host Vendors Recommended By The James Beard Foundation
An upcoming food hall in New York City will not only house culinary entrepreneurs and chefs, but also serve as an incubator to further fuel their growth.
Debuting at Pier 57 in Chelsea’s Hudson River Park in Spring 2023, Market 57 will focus on empowering women and BIPOC businesses. Fifteen tenants were chosen based on a list curated with input from the James Beard Foundation, all working from kiosks.
The foundation will also have a dual presence within Market 57. Their kiosk, called Good To Go by JBF, operates as a rotating incubator space with operators selected through an application process. PLATFORM by JBF, a modern show kitchen and educational space, will host rotating chefs-in-residence, culinary experiences, culinary arts programs and events.
“New York City is teeming with a rich array of cultures, traditions and culinary influences, and the vendors at Market 57 reflect that diversity,” said Clare Reichenbach, CEO of the James Beard Foundation, in a press release.
Many of the recommended market tenants are graduates of JBF’s Impact programs or have attended the Foundation’s events or have been featured at James Beard House over the years.
From seafood orders to specialty dishes and drinks
Among those 15 vendors is Ammi, a home-style Indian restaurant owned by Jimmy Rizvi, known for GupShup and Chote Miya. Her Market 57 location will not only feature Rizvi’s mother’s family recipes, but also her education and passing of those recipes to Ammi’s chefs.
Bessou restaurateur Maiko Kyogoku and Executive Chef Elena Yamamoto introduce Bessou on the Pier, offering some of Bessou’s signature dishes, including Japanese-style Karaage Fried Chicken and Crispy Sushi Rice. A rotating omakase bento and seafood advance menu are also planned.
Faith and Brandon Lee, owners of Bird & Branch, will open the next location for their specialty coffee shop, featuring baked goods inspired by their Asian-American upbringing.
Due Madri by Butcher Girls lets founders Erika Nakamura and Jocelyn Guest create a menu of some of their favorite Italian sandwiches.
Local Roots owner Wen-Jay Ying’s menu consists of fine Chinese farm-to-table dishes such as spring onion pancakes, bubble tea, vegetarian egg drop soup and vegan organic mapo tofu bowls.
LoLo’s on the Water’s Raymond Z. Mohan and Leticia Skai Young Mohan will give a twist to LoLo’s Seafood Shack, their Harlem mainstay. This outpost focuses on comfort fare on the Caribbean coast.
Malai’s founder and first-generation Native American Pooja Bavishi will make her kiosk at Market 57 the first Manhattan location for her Brooklyn-based ice cream company.
The team behind Harlem Hops—owners Kevin Bradford, Kim Harris, and Stacey Lee—opened Harlem’s first African-American-owned craft beer bar. At Market 57, their concept features small bites and a collection of small-batch beers. especially those made by color brewers.
Fany Gerson of Fan-Fan Donuts and La Newyorkina’s will be launching their newest savory concept, Mijo. The company will also mark her first deal with her husband Daniel Ortiz de Montellano.
Market 57 will also expand to new outposts from Nom Wah, Lobster Place, The Good Batch, Ras Plant Based, and Zaab Zaab.
mother Ben “Moody” Harney is known as “The Oyster King of New York” and operates the only oyster truck in Brooklyn. At Market 57, all oyster shells from its kiosk are donated to the Billion Oyster Project.
Harney, who goes by the name Moody, started his oyster business by working in the food industry. These experiences also introduced him to different strains and their overall beneficial effects on the environment. But like others perhaps, he had misconceptions about oysters before he tasted them.
“I assumed they were plain taste, crappy texture, and prohibitively priced,” he said. “After working with a larger variety of oysters than was offered locally, I found that not only were all my assumptions wrong, but that oysters are delicious and highly nutritious for both me and the rest of the planet .
Harney, a native New Yorker, said his kiosk at Market 57 will feature black-and-white photographs of black New York oyster farmers who have transformed the market from a common man’s grocery into an upscale restaurant West Coast and British Columbia along with regional choices like Long Island Blue Points.
Pier 57 is a 1950’s naval terminal that has been converted into a mixed-use space. It is located with the Hudson River Park between West 14th and West 17th Streets. For more information about Market 57, visit www.pier57nyc.com.
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