New York Post

Big red sauce BOND offering

- By JENNIFER GOULD KEIL jgould@nypost.com

Two Brooklyn-born fashion-designing brothers of celeb cult brand BOND are channeling their creative juices into the launch of a new restaurant.

LA-based Arben and Kuj Durollari, whose clients include The Weeknd, Anwar Hadid and hip hop trio Migos, are joining with their pops, Will, in opening Nittis, a Hell’s Kitchen red sauce joint with a difference.

The 3,900-square-foot restaurant, 523 Ninth Ave., seats 68 people.

The brothers also have designed the servers’ uniforms, natch, mixing high fashion and urban street wear: tuxedo style trousers with a red velvet stripe (that match the red velvet banquets) and BOND Tshirts.

Even the Rome-born executive chef, Andrea Cinus Napolitano, has fashion cred. The 30-year culinary veteran got his start, briefly, as a Versace model before attending ALMA, La Scuola Internazio­nale di Cucina Italiana, working in the Vatican and landing in New York City in the early 1990s.

The aesthetic combines 1920s glam with ’50s noir and ’ 80s grit.

David Chang’s Momofuku Noodle Bar is set to open this month in the Time Warner Center.

The third-floor space will showcase the fare Chang first introduced in the East Village in 2004 — the same year that the TWC opened. The menu, from Chef Tony Kim, will focus on buns and seasonal dishes.

Additional Momofuku Noodle Bars will open in Hudson Yards and Pier 17.

Stephen Ross, who heads Related Companies — which developed TWC — has his own private investment firm, RSE Ventures, which invests in Chang’s restaurant­s.

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