The bird has landed.
Le Coq Rico, a popular rotisserie in Paris, is opening its first US location in the Flatiron District.
The roast-chicken restaurant will move into 3,000 square feet at 32 East 20th St., between Park Avenue South and Broadway.
The block is home to some of the city’s most iconic restaurants, from Gramercy Tavern and Il Mulino Trattoria to The Cellar at Beecher’s Handmade Cheese and Mari Vanna, a Russian addition. Chanterelle is also planning to open there.
“Le Coq Rico will be a fine addition,” said Melinda Miller of Winick Realty Group. “The location benefits from dense residential and daytime populations as well as its close proximity to Union Square.”
Miller and Ross Burack represented landlord Walter Samuels, while Michael Cohen and Benjamin Birnbaum of Newmark Grubb Knight Frank repped the restaurant.
Masseria Di Vini is opening at 889 Ninth Ave. The restaurant, as the name implies, is heavy on wine as well as food.
The food will be from across Italy, with an emphasis on southern Italian. Its debut is slated for July, said partner Peppe Iuele. He’s opening the restaurant with Enzo Ruggiero and Pino Coladonato, who will be the chef and is well-known for his work with Sette MoMA and Sette Mezzo.
Yuriy Aronov of A&I Broadway Realty represented the tenant in finding the space and brokering the deal. The group also has La Masseria at 235 W. 48th St. and another in Rhode Island. Masseria Di Vini will have around 112 seats in a 3,300 square-foot space.
We hear … that David Burke Townhouse, at 133 E. 61st St., is re-opening in May. Launched in 2003, the eatery shut its doors in January for renovations. For the first five years, the restaurant was known as DavidBurke & Donatella before their professional break-up in 2008.
Burke continues to run the restaurant, popular with celebrities from Barbara Walters to Catherine Zeta-Jones and Eli Manning. Donatella Arpaia went on to have another public split with chef Michael Psilakis and hospitality guru Ron Brannon, who opened Brannon’s at 119 Essex St. on the Lower East Side last fall.
Award-winning chef Elizabeth Falkner will be the first female chef to be honored at the American Cancer Society’s ninth annual foodie fund-raiser, “Taste of Hope,” on May 1.
Past honorees have included chefs Marc Murphy, Todd English and Eric Levine.
Participating restaurants include Bodega Negra, The Meatball Shop, Blue Ribbon Sushi, Recette and Dinosaur BBQ. The event draws around 800 people and will take place at 82 Mercer St. Tickets are $175 or $250 for VIP access.
Game on!
NYY Steak is hosting a lunchtime bash for the 1 p.m. home opener on Monday, including a $27 championship plate with a 27-ounce long bone rib-eye, a glass of wine or a cocktail and two free Yankees tickets.