Fine Dining Will Make a Case for Itself

What is the appetite for precious chef creations and overly elaborate tastings amid all the current cultural and economic turmoil? We’re about to find out: On August 31, owner John Coppola and chef Chris Cote will open a Dumbo tasting room called

Pearl Street Supper Club (147 Front St., nr.

Jay St.). Cote, a New England native, will turn out flights inspired by the region. In lieu of fancy chowder, he’ll offer dishes such as baked monkfish tails and cured bluefish with Canadice grapes, drawing on techniques he honed while working at Aska and Copenhagen’s fabled Noma. On the other side of the Manhattan Bridge, chef Ignacio Mattos is working on Amado Grill

(9 Orchard St., at Canal St.), a tastingmenu restaurant inside the Nine Orchard hotel that will serve as the upscale companion to the chef’s more casual Corner Bar. Up on Manhattan’s West Side, chef Christophe Bellanca—a vet of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon—will be dressing quickseared hiramasa with passion fruit and the Japanese citrus sudachi when he opens

Essential by Christophe (103 W. 77th St., nr. Columbus Ave.) in November. Meanwhile, the furniture chain formerly known as Restoration Hardware is opening RH

Guesthouse (55 Gansevoort St., nr. Ninth Ave.), a boutique inn with a ten-table Champagne and caviar bar as well as a first-floor live-fire dining room that will sport the requisite truffle fries and Wagyu rib eye. And finally, chef Markus Glocker is set to unveil

Koloman (16 W. 29th St., nr. Broadway) in Nomad, transforming the former Breslin space into an upscale FrancoAustrian atelier with oxtail bonbons, sweet and savory soufflés, beet-sauced salmon en croûte, and an extensive Champagne list.