MOVEABLE FEASTS

Your guide to this summer’s best new pop-up bars and restaurants

THIS summer, NYC is ready to pop. Right now, city eateries — serving everything from Japanese katsu to Indian street food to oysters — are opening new spinoff shops in food markets, within other restaurants, on rooftops and even inside skating rinks. Citing a dismal year of lockdowns, everchanging regulations, staffing issues and a lack of institutional investment, pop-ups offer chefs the opportunity to express their pent-up creative energy without the risks associated with a traditional brick-and-mortar space.

“These kinds of pop-ups are nice [because] you don’t think so much about the long term,” said chef Nir Sarig, who founded the Middle Eastern pop-up Eti. “So you allow yourself to be bolder and to take more risks.”

Whether you’re craving a cheap sandwich or an upscale three-course meal, check out these seven pop-up restaurants that are absolutely worth braving the summer heat for.

Garden party

Dine at 620 is a new outdoor summer dining experience at Rockefeller Center located at 620 Loft & Garden — one of Midtown’s most popular terraces with views of the city skyline. Monday through Thursday, for two weeks, a rotating cast of three restaurants — Olmsted, Atogirl and Pebble Bar — will offer a curated food and drink menu. EB Kelly, Tishman Speyer’s managing director overseeing Rockefeller Center, told The Post that this is the first time the rooftop setting was open to the public “while collaborating with some of New York’s most celebrated restaurants and chefs.”

A James Beard “Best New Restaurant” finalist specializing in American fare, Olmsted will run its pop-up from Aug. 2 to 12. Chef-owner Greg Baxtrom, 36, is using seasonal and local ingredients to create a prix fixe menu ($75) featuring summer dishes like tonkatsu spare ribs (pictured at left), with many ingredients sourced from the Union Square Greenmarket. Stop by Dine at 620 right now to try Atogirl, which is open through Thursday, with a concept inspired by bunsik — Korean street snacks. The pop-up menu features kimbap (commonly known as Korean sushi rolls), rose lobster tteokbokki (rice cakes) and fried chicken from sister restaurant Atoboy, which is located in NoMad and undergoing renovations.

Monday to Thursday, through Aug. 12. 620 Loft & Garden, 620 Fifth Ave.; 212-632-5055, Rockefellercenter.com/events/dine-at-620