It turns out that massive NYC company Major Food Group (behind hit Italian restaurants like Carbone and Torrisi) is indeed taking over the legendary, now-closed Tribeca Grill space co-founded by actor Robert De Niro, at 375 Greenwich Street, between Franklin and North Moore streets.
Major Food Group co-founders chef Rich Torrisi, Mario Carbone, and Jeff Zalaznick are opening an unnamed American tavern and steakhouse in 2027, per a press release sent on Monday.
Eater reported earlier in March that Major Food Group was close to signing the lease for Tribeca Grill’s address, at the time, with hoteliers Ira Drukier and Richard Born (Hotel Chelsea, the Bowery, and the Greenwich). It’s unclear if the hotel duo is still involved; Eater has reached out
for more information.
In 1990, restaurateur Drew Nieporent and De Niro opened Tribeca Grill, a New American restaurant that turned the neighborhood into a buzzy, cool destination, thanks to celebrity diners (everyone from John F. Kennedy Jr. to Bruce Springsteen to Christopher Walken to Nelson Mandela) and, eventually, the annual Tribeca Film Festival that’s happening right now. However, 35 years later, they shuttered the iconic restaurant in March 2025, because “the economics following the [COVID-19] pandemic never fully rebounded for us,” co-partner Marty Shapiro explained at the time.
After Tribeca Grill’s shutter, restaurateur and chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten had been looking at the address to open something, but then nixed those plans. (De Niro still owns the building.)
“It is an opportunity to respect the legacy of an extraordinary address while giving people a completely new reason to walk through the door,” Torrisi said through the press release. It’s the same neighborhood as LDV Hospitality’s American Cut.
While working on this new Tribeca restaurant, Major Food Group is also developing restaurants, bars, and a food court at the massive Metropolitan Park casino development in Flushing, set to open in 2030.
