9 New Restaurants for You to Try Right Now

Open Since: Feb. 18
Type of Cuisine: Rice pudding

Rice Cream Shoppe features 20 ice cream-inspired flavors of rice pudding, including Rockey Road, Tiramisu and Corn. Spring/summer flavors include peaches and cream, strawberry-rhubarb, carrot cake and piña colada.

Open Since: February
Type of Cuisine: Mexican

The Upper East Side has a new Mexican eatery, which serves dishes made with local and organic ingredients, like homemade guacamole, pollo guisado, a Korean taco with kimchi and bulgolgi, and even a Mexican pizza. The restaurant is one of several locations around the city and the first in this neighborhood.

Open Since: March 28
Type of Cuisine: Peruvian desserts

The star here is the Peruvian ice cream, featuring flavors like lucuma and cherimoya. The team also sells colorful bagels.

Open Since: Early April   
Type of Cuisine: French

This new kiosk in Verdi Square, just to the east of the subway entrance, has its own outdoor cafe seating and serves pastries, breakfast, lunch, snacks and drinks either to eat there or take away. The menu is French-inspired and seasonal.

Open Since: April 2016
Type of Cuisine: Gourmet coffee, pastries, cold pressed juices

The organic, fair trade coffee shop has opened its latest NYC location inside the Roxy Hotel. Along with its brews, the cafe offers up vegan sweets and a variety of cold pressed juices.

Open Since: April 15
Type of Cuisine: American

Now that it’s summer, it’s time to eat well under the sun and/or moon and/or stars at Union Square’s seasonal, open air restaurant.

Open Since: Late March
Type of Cuisine: Indian-Chinese fusion

Inspired by the cuisine that evolved in Kolkata, India — many Chinese immigrants that settled there — The Chinese Club features dim sum, noodles, dumplings, and some dishes that you can only find in Indian-Chinese cuisine like vegetable fritters in a signature brown sauce.

Open Since: Last year, but recently launched new cocktail menu for spring and summer
Type of Cuisine: Pizzeria

Numero 28 opened last year but the pizzeria recently unveiled its new cocktail menu for the spring and summer, including “White Rabbit” with grappa, grapefruit juice, creme de Violette and Japanese marmalade, a Vodka-based “Bergen Mule” and “Shochu 28” with Shochu liqueur, mango puree, cinnamon, cardamom angostura and prosecco.