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Among other recent wine-focused openings are Bar Moore in the Seattle area, Kingfisher in Brooklyn and Town House in New York's Westchester County.

The latest in a restaurateur’s growing Prospect-Lefferts Gardens collection, a Brooklyn bar from the Grand Banks team, and more restaurant news.

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After fits and starts, New York restaurateurs are ready to return to business as prepandemic usual, with a flurry of reboots, expansions and cuisine pivots.

While everyone else in Brooklyn was busy nursing sourdough starters last spring, André Mack was shopping for a stone mill. The founder of Brooklyn hospitality group & Sons — and a nationally-recognized sommelier, winemaker, and author — Mack is building a reputation for opening cozy, neighborhood spaces that are mildly fanatical about ingredient sourcing, like Ham Bar and adjacent specialty grocery shop Buttery. During the pandemic, as diners stuck closer to home and others relied exclusi...