The two openings that set Hudson Street's agenda this fall both trace their menus to farms upstate. Each can name the farms. Within the same four weeks, two long-running evening restaurants a few blocks north closed, and only one has hinted at what comes next. Taken together, the corridor between Leroy and Bank Streets now leans more on provisions and daytime trade, and on supply chains it describes openly. In a busy season, the West Village has seen few comparable shifts.
Two Kitchens, Two Farm Lists
Humm opened on October 10 at 435 Hudson Street, between Leroy and Morton Streets, as Daniel Humm's casual restaurant with the team behind Eleven Madison Park and Clemente Bar. The restaurant's own menu page says its modern American cooking follows the harvest at Magic Farms, its farm in Hoosick Falls, New York. Eater reported that Maciek Kobielski grows produce there only for the group's restaurants. The menu changes with the seasons, the market and that harvest. The opening menu included crispy feta with sesame and shallot agrodolce, tuna crudo, chicory and tangerine salad, fried eggplant with pickled green tomatoes, grilled fish, roasted chicken for two, and milk and honey for dessert. The restaurant's site says the kitchen starts with "the best produce, fish, and meat" and tries not to get in the way of their taste.
The space belonged to En Japanese Brasserie until it closed in December 2024 after two decades. Pierre Yovanovitch designed the new room, which shows art by Francesco Clemente and Rashid Johnson alongside pieces by Louise Bourgeois and Roni Horn.
Six blocks north, H. Valley opened fully on September 23 at 569 Hudson Street. It comes from chef Austin Johnson and Eytan Sugarman's Hudson Street Hospitality. Patch reported that Johnson, formerly of the Michelin-starred One White Street and of Rigor Hill Market, built the concept on his experience working with Hudson Valley farms. According to Hoodline's account of the sourcing, the produce comes from Campo Rosso Farm, Norwich Meadows Farm, Eckerton Hill Farm and Migliorelli Farm.
The market sells everything from breakfast to tomorrow's dinner. That includes coffee, matcha, breads and pastries, breakfast sandwiches, weekend omelettes, hot and cold sandwiches, prepared meals, ready-to-cook proteins, produce, housemade sauces and pantry goods. It also makes housemade dog food. Hoodline reported that the line uses Hudson Valley brook trout, Bell & Evans chicken and Long Island duck breast. "The dogs are customers, too," Johnson told Eater.
The farms connect the two openings. One is a fine-dining group with its own farm. The other is a neighborhood market buying from four named growers. Each tells customers where its food comes from, and both arrived on the same stretch of the same street within eighteen days of each other.
The Hudson Street Ledger, July Through October
Laid out by address, the corridor's fall looks like this.
| Address | Business | What happened | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 435 Hudson St | Humm | Opened in the former En Japanese Brasserie space | October 10 |
| 518 Hudson St | Justine's on Hudson | Closed; a new concept teased | October 17 |
| 569 Hudson St | H. Valley | Opened as a chef-run market | September 23 |
| 581 Hudson St, at Bank St | Mémé | Closed after 16 years | October 24 |
| 626 Hudson St | Mary's Fish Camp | Returned after a 2024 closure | July 31 |
The openings sit at the south end and in the middle. Both closings are evening restaurants built around drinks and dinner, north of Christopher Street.
The Evening Rooms That Went Dark
Mémé closed its Hudson Street corner on Saturday, October 24. In its farewell, quoted by Eater, it described sixteen years "in the most beautiful neighborhood." The Mediterranean restaurant was known for dirty martinis, spicy margaritas, spritzes and lobster diavolo pasta. Its Hell's Kitchen location stays open.
A week earlier, Justine's on Hudson served its final dinner on October 17 at 518 Hudson Street. Village Reader reported that the wine bistro promised "something new" at the address, without saying what it would be.
Mary's Fish Camp shows that the corridor can bring back an old evening room as well as lose one. Mary Redding closed the original in 2024 after 20 years. The restaurant reopened on July 31 at 626 Hudson Street, just north of both vacancies. That puts one revived institution and two dark storefronts within a short walk of each other at the top of the corridor. Two of the three addresses are still unresolved.
Daytime Hours Around the Corridor
Look at the hours the newcomers chose and a pattern appears beyond Hudson Street itself. H. Valley's homepage lists Wednesday through Sunday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., closed Monday and Tuesday. Eater's opening-day report gave a later 8 p.m. close on that first Wednesday, so the schedule has already been adjusted once.
The nearby openings follow similar hours:
- Calabash, 183 Christopher Street. Camari Mick's Afro-Caribbean bakery and brasserie started daytime service on October 2 and added dinner only on October 9, and the daytime menu includes laminated pastries and naturally fermented breads. Patch reported that Mick leads the kitchen with chef de cuisine Tajeh Porter.
- Bar à Part, 72 Bedford Street. Zimmi's owners Maxime Pradié and Jenni Guizio opened this 15-seat wine bar and cafe on October 7, with pastries by pastry chef Clodagh Manning.
- Drugstore, 172 West Fourth Street. Los Angeles restaurateur Jeremy Fall's cafe is scheduled to open Saturday, November 14, with planned hours of Wednesday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eater listed smoothies, breakfast burritos, sipping broths, all-day breakfast, wraps and frozen kefir among the planned offerings.
Two of these three opened in the morning or plan to. Calabash started with bread and pastry before it served dinner. Bar à Part is a cafe as much as a wine bar. Add H. Valley and four of the corridor's newest operators are building around breakfast, lunch and take-home food, in a season when two dinner-and-cocktails rooms closed.
Humm sits apart from this pattern, but only partly. It serves dinner only. Resy's guide lists Sunday through Thursday, 5 to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 5 to 10:30 p.m. Eater described three places to sit: the dining room for the full menu, plus the bar and the lounge, which have smaller menus. Resy says some walk-ins are available, especially at the bar. The Financial Times described the lounge as designed for locals and walk-ins. For an evening room from a three-Michelin-star team, that lounge plays much the role on Hudson Street that the closed bars did, with a farm behind the kitchen.
The Week of November 5, by the Clock
- Morning: H. Valley opens at 7 a.m. Wednesday through Sunday at 569 Hudson Street. Calabash serves its daytime bakery menu at 183 Christopher Street.
- Afternoon: Bar à Part's 15 seats at 72 Bedford Street cover the cafe hours. H. Valley's prepared dinners and ready-to-cook proteins are available until its 7 p.m. close.
- Evening: Humm seats from 5 p.m. nightly, with the bar the likeliest option without a booking. Mary's Fish Camp is back at 626 Hudson Street.
- Mondays and Tuesdays: H. Valley is closed. Drugstore's planned schedule also skips both days once it opens on November 14.
The open questions are at 518 and 581 Hudson Street. Justine's has promised a new concept at 518, and Mémé's corner at Bank Street is empty after sixteen years. Whatever opens at those two addresses will show whether the north end of the corridor follows its southern blocks toward farm-sourced provisions and daytime trade, or brings back the evening bar trade it lost this month.
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