Artichoke MacDougal Street, Zen Palate UWS, Dough, Fedora and More Coming Soon

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• Artichoke Macdougal
• Saigon Shack
• Fedora plywood by Flickr/RickyV
• Fedora Bar by Mo Koyfman
• Gino's Pizza by Here is Park Slope
• Danji by ML
• Maoz in Midtown by ML

1) West Village: Spark Capital's Mo Koyfman has a shot of bar restoration going on at Fedora. And then there's this beauty.[PLYWOOD]

2) West Village: From a tipster, the Esperanto Cafe space at 114 MacDougal St. is turning into banh mi shop Saigon Cafe. Meanwhile another reader sends in a photo of the new Artichoke going in nearby next to Off the Wagon.[PLYWOOD]

3) Upper West Side: Per a tipster, an outpost of Zen Palate opening in the old Metisse space, "the French/Brazilian bistro with the creepy waitresses who seemed to always be wasted on heroin or ecstasy." [PLYWOOD]
4) Park Slope: Here's Park Slope runs a photo of plywood at 140 7th Ave., set to be an outpost of Gino's Pizza of Bayside. [PLYWOOD]

5) Clinton Hill: Choice Brooklyn posts on Facebook to let people know about their upcoming doughnut and coffee shop, Dough, coming to the corner of Lafayette and Franklin Aves. [PLYWOOD]

6) Midtown West: Midtown Lunch brings word that Korean restaurant Danji is being built out on 52nd St between 8th and 9th Aves. The chef, Hooni Kim is a Daniel and Masa alum. [PLYWOOD]

7) East Village: EV Grieve notices that a 99-cent pizza shop is opening at 150 2nd St. [PLYWOOD]

8) Midtown West: Midtown Lunch also notes that a new branch of Maoz Vegetarian is taking over the defunct Roma Pizza space at 683 8th Ave. [PLYWOOD]
—Zachary Feldman