Here’s your end-of-week Lower East Side food roundup:
Graffiti artist/club owner André Saraiva is opening Cafe Henrie at 110 Forsyth St. There’s no liquor license. The restaurant will serve breakfast (including Counter Culture Coffee) and lunch. Saraiva’s artist friends have contributed various items for the new cafe, which is meant to be a creative hangout.
The Times is impressed with Sam’s Spring Roll, the Essex Street spot that’s reinterpreting the common Chinatown snack with inventive fillings. The owner, Samantha Chu, grew up on the Lower East Side.
La Contenta, the little Mexican restaurant at 102 Norfolk St., began serving lunch this week. Offered from 11 a.m., they’re featuring an entree (today’s choices included chicken enchiladas and chilaquiles), soup, aqua fresca and coffee for $11.
Fung Tu is once again cooking with gas and offering its full menu after several weeks in which their Orchard Street building was off-line.
In its fall preview, the Times notes that Brooklyn-based pizza restaurant, Speedy Romeo, won’t be ready to open at 63 Clinton St. until December.
