URBANSPACE FOOD HALLS ARE COMING TO AN END, REBRANDING WITH A NEW NAME

Last April, restaurateurs Steve Hanson and Alex Gaudelet (who make up Hospitality Firm) first announced they’d be taking over underperforming Urbanspace food halls, the latest move in a string of attempts to make food halls viable. This past week, New York Post reported they’d be relaunching the five locations, now under the HF Food Halls umbrella. “We are acquiring each of the halls individually and rebranding them,” Gaudelet told the Post.

A year past the announcement, and some vendors who had been on month-to-month leases since last spring, while others have already been ousted or left from what was Urbanspace Vanderbilt for under-performance. New vendors have also moved in, like John McDonald’s Bash Burger, who says he has more outposts on the way. A source tells Eater that vendors in other Urbanspace locations are scrambling to parse through information and figure out financial details as well as whether their businesses could be next on the chopping block. A document provided to Eater from Urbanspace Pearl Street asks vendors to cease using the Urbanspace name as of May 1.

An Austin top restaurant will come to NYC for a pop-up

Suerte, an Austin, Texas, Eater Best New Restaurant of 2018, will host a kitchen takeover at Frenchette in Tribeca on Sunday, May 5. The menu is $125 for four courses fusing the Mexican flavors of Suerte, with Frenchette’s French cuisine. Reservations are available online.

A Flushing bakery owner is expanding to Manhattan

Salswee Bakery is coming soon to 180 Fifth Avenue, near West 23rd Street, in Flatiron with viennoiserie, French pastries, along with sandwiches, and espresso drinks. It comes from an owner of Shakalaka Bakery, a Chinese bakery on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, Queens, according to a Salswee spokesperson.

This Afghan food stand is opening a restaurant

Nansense began serving food out of a converted mail truck in Chelsea, eventually winning a Vendy Award, and a review in the New York Times. Now, Mohibullah Rahmati, who goes by Mo, is opening up an Afghan restaurant of his very own, just a stone’s throw out of the city, in Beacon, New York — a town known for its easy access on the Metro North, and the Dia Beacon museum. He’s targeting opening this spring at 2 Eliza Street, at Main Street.

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