By Nicole Breskin
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
GREENWICH VILLAGE — The Village is set to get its soul back this summer with the much-anticipated return of the Pink Tea Cup.
The date has been set for June 2 for the 55-year-old soul food restaurant — once frequented by celebrities Bill Cosby, Susan Sarandon and Whoopi Goldberg — to reopen with new management at 88 Seventh Ave. after its old location was shuttered in December.
“A lot of work was put into the building of the original Pink Tea Cup and the reputation it has today,” said former owner and co-founder Charles Raye, who sold the restaurant to filmmaker Laurence Page.
“I am happy that he is bringing the restaurant back to its devoted customers and to a new generation of patrons.”
Page is bringing a new menu and cocktails to the restaurant. He's also hoping for a later closing hour.
“With a larger location, new venue features, an enticing menu including original and new dishes, and staying open until 5am for those after hours foodies the way it was back in the day, I look more than forward to serving the New York community and continuing the delicious legacy of the Pink Tea Cup," Page said.
New dishes will include herb-crusted rack of lamb with lobster mashed potatoes, crispy fried duck drizzled with pecan sauce served, grilled pork chops stuffed with an apple, blackened barbeque salmon with sautéed spinach and seasoned seared shrimp.
