Over the past year alone: there’s Ignacio Mattos handling the food at the Nine Orchard hotel, Time sushi, Le Dive, and Parcelle all within the couple block radius, increasingly referred to by a select group as Dimes Square. Overall, Shelley wants the space to feel timeless, like “the Odeon,” with white table cloths, yes, but in a way that doesn’t come off buttoned up or “pretentious.” No matter how you slice it though, the trendy Casino marks the increase in high-profile restaurants to have opened on the Lower East Side.

Addington makes use of the wood-fired oven throughout.įor dessert, there’s butterscotch budino with kumquat conserve and an amaretti cookie, a lemon tart with lavender and crema, as well as a Paris brest with hazelnut choux and salted Sicilian pistachio ice cream, in collaboration with Morgenstern’s.Ī selection of dishes - both seafood and not - at Casino. But meat and veggies also play a role: A crespelle, a crepe with ricotta and artichokes, pork collar with braised beans, duck with figs, and a smoked lamb-black garlic sugo with pappardelle, fill out the menu. Seafood anchors Addington’s menu: fritto misti (squid, rock shrimp, anchovies, and zucchini, with Meyer lemon), crudo, whole roasted turbot, and the lobster Cioppino Casino, seafood stew with a tomato, fennel, and saffron broth base with shrimp, mussels, clams, black bass, crab, and, needless to say, lobster. Whether the food will back up the movie set-ready interiors remains to be seen. While the Casino team is gambling on a less sullied future for the space, it will no doubt continue on Mission’s legacy of being a party spot, flocked to by the fashion and art worlds (and already is, if its pre-opening events displayed all over Instagram are any indication). Customers may remember the Casino space for its years as Mission Chinese Food, which closed, unceremoniously, in 2020. Past the dining room and down a few steps is another 30-seat cocktail lounge that will be used for private events. Step in further past a chain curtain, and you’re in the main dining room, clad with red booths and white tablecloths, with capacity for 70. No expense seems to have been spared with the design, by Camilla Deterre, who also outfitted Primo’s with its signature Art Deco glamour.Īt Casino, there is a front, walk-in-friendly cafe with a bar, with its checkerboard red-and-white flooring, and curvy walls. From top: The main dining area, the cafe, and bar.ĭespite the name, there are no slot machines at Casino (Shelley says Casino is actually a reference to the Italian word for a house of entertainment).

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