A globe-trotting roundup of the season’s most enticing openings, exhibitions, hotels, and tastemakers across Industry’s favorite cities.
New York City
BY AMBER GIBSON
Farmhouse Feast
After working at Atomix, The French Laundry, Gramercy Tavern, and Copenhagen’s Geranium, Chef Hasung Lee just opened his debut restaurant in Murray Hill. Oyatte works directly with a single upstate New York farm, Crown Daisy Farm, led by Brett Ellis, Lee’s former colleague and head farmer at The French Laundry. His culinary philosophy emphasizes sustainable sourcing, fermentation, and preservation, with lots of veggie-centric courses. You might recognize Lee from season two of Netflix’s hit cooking competition show Culinary Class Wars, where he was nicknamed the Culinary Monster and ultimately crowned the runner-up. The eight-course tasting menu progresses from the first-floor rustic cottage farmhouse to a more refined upstairs dining room, with highlights like fermented carrot donuts and roasted lamb saddle and tenderloin wrapped in house-cured lamb bacon.
125 E 39th Street, oyattenyc.com
The Hot Spot
Bathhouse’s newest Brooklyn outpost opened in May, bringing the brand’s “anti-spa” movement – focused on recovery, contrast therapy, and social wellness – to a massive new location near Barclays Center. The 32,000-square-foot space was designed as an immersive thermal environment, inviting wellness seekers to shift between hot and cold experiences to stimulate circulation, recovery, and relaxation. The facility features three indoor thermal pools: a hot pool (104°F), a neutral pool (98°F), and a cold plunge (50°F), along with an event sauna, traditional banya, infrared sauna, and steam room. One of the highlights is the guided Aufguss sauna ritual, where sauna masters use essential oils, music, and towel choreography to intensify the heat experience. A casual canteen offers refreshing drinkables and light bites between thermal circuits.
540 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, abathhouse.com/atlantic-ave
Air Art
The globally touring inflatable art Balloon Museum just opened its first-ever permanent location in New York’s 53,000-square-foot waterfront Tin Building. Inaugural exhibition Daydream: Air Becomes Art brings together air, light, sound, color, reflection, and volume, creating a sequence of large-scale environments that visitors move through and interact with. A helium-filled, charcoal-spiked sphere floats freely through one room, while fabric-covered lungs and a rising, collapsing mirror ball captivate attention in another. The surreal world presents a concept-driven sensory encounter in a dreamlike setting, with a previously unseen installation by Marina Abramović at its center, inspired by childhood imagination and the ephemeral nature of breath.
96 South Street, balloonmuseum.world
Dock & Roll
The Crew team behind popular boat restaurant Grand Banks opened Fireboat at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6 this summer, serving tropical drinks and bites like cod hushpuppies and halloumi pineapple skewers with panoramic views of the New York Harbor. Set aboard the decommissioned 1961 FDNY fireboat Governor Alfred E. Smith, beer and wine are served from the boat’s original fire cannons and hose connectors. After acquiring the vessel at a 2016 city auction, Crew spent years restoring the vintage ship into a celebratory, breezy cocktail bar with unbeatable waterfront views.
Pier 6 Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, instagram.com/fireboat.nyc
Dance Revolution
Earlybirds Club is a fast-growing, early-evening dance party popping up in various cities across the country this summer, including New York City on August 29 at Webster Hall. Parties run from 6-10 p.m., so attendees can dance the night away and still be in bed at a decent hour. The dance experience feels celebratory, free, and unpretentious, designed as a safe space for women, trans, and non-binary folks. Think packed dance floors, sing-alongs to hits from the ’80s through the 2000s, and zero late-night regret, all while supporting nonprofits that uplift women and the gender-expansive community. Proceeds from the New York party will be donated to the Susie Lee Legacy Fund.
125 E 11th Street, early-birds.club
