Report: Tokyo-based yakitori restaurant with a Michelin star coming to Elizabeth Street

The Tokyo-based Torishiki is opening its first U.S. outpost over on Elizabeth Street between East Houston and Bleecker this September.

In its real-estate transaction listings yesterday, The New York Times reported that the restaurant's owners signed a 15-year lease for 292 Elizabeth St., the home until February of Siggy's Good Food.

The rent is roughly $23,500 a month, per the Times.

Eater's guide to essential Tokyo dining described the Michelin-starred restaurant this way:

Torishiki takes the basics of yakitori — morsels of chicken that are skewered, grilled, and basted — and elevates them to another level. Owner Yoshiteru Ikegawa uses virtually every part of his premium shamo gamecocks, tending the skewers over his glowing charcoal grill with artisan intensity. Among his specialties: chochin, the rich yolk of an unhatched egg; grilled tofu, rich with chicken fat; and the warming, nourishing chicken broth that closes every meal.

As for Siggy's, the owner of the all-organic restaurant cited the economy and bureaucracy for the reasons behind the closure on Elizabeth Street after nearly five years in business.

Previously on EV Grieve:
Bad news for fans of Siggy's Good Food

Bad news for fans of Siggy's Good Food

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Siggy's Good Food, the all-organic restaurant where aliens eat free, has announced that it's closing up shop on Elizabeth Street just north of Houston. Saturday is the last day for service — in NYC anyway.

The farewell note that Siggy's posted on its social media accounts points to multiple reasons for the closure, including "bureaucratic, economy..." And Siggy's is moving to Charlotte, N.C.



Siggy's debuted on Elizabeth Street in July 2012. Owner Siggy Sollitto opened her first location in Brooklyn Heights in 2005. That outpost closed in 2015.

Sollitto said this to Brooklyn Paper in 2015:

[S]he said city regulations are making it tough to run a business in [Manhattan], citing the health department as a particularly pronounced source of headaches.

“The city administration is really making things impossible for a small business,” she said.

Thanks to @ThisIsWeber for the tip!

Siggy's Good Food opens tonight on Elizabeth Street

The second outpost of all-organic Brooklyn Heights restaurant Siggy's Good Food opens today at 5 on Elizabeth Street... just a little ways in between Houston and Bleecker. (Siggy's replaces Rice, which closed in the spring, per Eater.)

Per the Siggy's website:

It is our belief that pure, good food plays a vital and significant role in our lives, promoting physical and emotional well-being. "Organic – back to better!" highlights the difference between organic, naturally grown food – full of vital nutrition and lots of life, as opposed to artificial, instant food. We believe in the power of food and its positive effect.

They will serve dinners only for the first week, then open for lunch as well...