Tenpenny in the Gotham Hotel has new owners.
The Midtown boite with foodie cred is re-opening after a three-week hiatus with a revamped look and a new chef, Side Dish has learned.
The new owner, Safet Kurtovic, ran the Loeb Central Park Boathouse, and he’s hired chef Kay Choe, who was a chef de cuisine at the Boathouse.
Korean-born Choe is shifting the eatery’s focus from American to “French-influenced” American. Choe got his start working for Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Alain Ducasse.
The 1300-square-foot restaurant has 55 seats.
There’s also a new wine cellar and wine-tasting table along with a catering menu, Kurtovic said, adding that the official re-opening is June 20.
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Juice Press, which opened in Southampton on Memorial Day, continues its rollout.
The Hamptons store, at 93 Main St., is 1600 square feet and already has celebrity customers including Hugh Jackman, who dropped by on opening day to stock up.
Next up is a 500-square-foot location slated to open at 1296 Madison Ave., at 92nd Street, on July 1.
The first store opened at 70 E. 1st St. in the East Village three years ago, and the nameplate has expanded to 15 stores — with at least four more coming by January 2014, a spokesman said.
The drinks include a 90-calorie “Almond Latte,” which is cold-pressed coffee with almond milk and dates, along with green drinks in the 230-calorie range. The company ships nationally and plans to open stores in other US cities in the next 12 months, a spokesman added.
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WE HEAR . . . That the Gotham Bar and Grill’s “Greenmarket to Gotham” recipe journal, with 36 farm produce recipes, from chef Alfred Portale, is available at the restaurant, where prix fixe vegetarian lunches from GrowNYC’s Union Square Greenmarket begin today. Portale is donating 10 percent of all Greenmarket menu revenue to GrowNYC’s educational initiatives.