Goat Town

Restaurants

Nick Morgenstern's makeover of Goat Town into GG's is complete. The restaurant is currently in soft opening mode with a limited menu, and will officially open with the full menu this weekend. The space is, at the core, the same, but brighter and spiffier with what looks like more comfortable seating than those old tiled booths. Morgenstern brought on Bobby Hellen, who built a solid reputation...

[Kat O'dell]
1) Alphabet City: Nick Morgenstern's transformation of Goat Town into GG's is underway at 511 E. 5th St. The revamped space is slated to open in September with Bobby Hellen, formerly of Resto and The Cannibal helming the kitchen and Emily Schumacher of Jack's Wife Freda running service. Here's a view from the garden out back. [PLYWOOD]

Nick Morgenstern will close his three and a half year-old East Village restaurant, Goat Town, on July 4, with plans to reopen it as an entirely new restaurant come fall. Morgenstern is teaming up with chef Bobby Hellen, a vet of Resto and The Cannibal, for the revamp, along with Goat Town's beverage director, Gabriel Richter and service director Emily Schumacher of Jack's Wife Freda. The new...

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Morgenstern's Finest Ice Cream is open for business, serving up flavors like green tea pistachio, durian banana, and champagne mango sorbet. Nick Morgenstern's experience as a pastry chef at high end restaurants like Daniel and Gramercy Tavern shows through in inventive ice cream toppings like Fernet biscuits and attention to detail, like his choice to make...

They have combined their own brand of furniture, light and sound in an effort to create a space shaped by a sensitivity to their client's vision and a passion for detail. They cut the cloth that dresses the farm table aesthetic in an environment that pays respect to its European influences.