Walk New York Avenue between Main Street and Gerard Street this month and count the new awnings. Kahani. Pasta Joint. Mighty Fine. Aunt Jake's, if you know to look on New Street. Harley's, in the space that used to be Pomodorino. Read the names off the storefronts and Huntington Village looks like a town in the middle of an unprecedented restaurant boom, a dozen strangers with a dozen ideas all deciding to bet on the same six blocks at once.
A closer look at the operators behind these openings shows that several belong to two families already running restaurants nearby. Huntington Village is seeing existing restaurateurs expand into additional spaces alongside new arrivals.
Who Is Behind the New Restaurants
| New Restaurant | Location | Previously | Connected To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kahani | 400 New York Ave | Lasagna Ristorante | BRGRS and Prime, same Singh family |
| Pasta Joint | 28 Wall St | Faz's | MB Ramen and Bistro Cassis, same Machado family |
| Aunt Jake's | New Street | Leilu | First Long Island location of a Manhattan original |
| Harley's | Former Pomodorino space | Pomodorino | Second location, original is in Farmingdale |
| Mighty Fine | Former Finley's building, restaurant side | Finley's | Opened March 2026 |
| Published | Former Finley's building, bar side | Finley's | Same building as Mighty Fine |
The six storefronts include two restaurants connected to families already operating in the village, two operators with businesses elsewhere, and two concepts in the former Finley's building.
The Singh Brothers' Third Address on the Same Block
Kahani opened at 400 New York Avenue, in the space that used to hold Lasagna Ristorante, with a Punjabi menu and a cocktail program built around cardamom and tamarind. The people behind it are Amarjit "Rana" Singh, Daljit "Raja" Singh, and Jasprit "Bobby" Singh, the same brothers who already run the smashburger spot BRGRS eight doors down at 392 New York Avenue, plus the steakhouse Prime a short walk further down the same avenue.
The restaurant carries a family story that a passerby reading the awning would never guess. One dish on the menu, Billo's Biryani, is named for the brothers' late mother, whose nickname inspired it. The cocktail program belongs to Rana Singh, the eldest brother, who spent years recovering from a car accident that left him partially paralyzed before returning to the bar he'd built his career around. Kahani isn't a new restaurant group testing the Huntington market. It's the same family adding a third address to a block they already own two corners of.
Wall Street's Pasta Answer, From a Ramen Family
A few blocks over, Pasta Joint opened at 28 Wall Street in the space that used to be Faz's. The owners are brothers Eric and Jason Machado, who also run MB Ramen and the French bistro Bistro Cassis elsewhere in the village. Three restaurants, three different cuisines, one ownership group building out a small footprint of very different concepts rather than one signature brand repeated three times.
The two outside operators each stepped into a former village restaurant space, though the stories behind those takeovers differ.
New Operators Take Over Former Village Restaurants
Going Local reported that Aunt Jake's would take over Leilu's former space. Leilu closed in August 2024 after five years on New Street, a restaurant founded by James and Meghan LaCourte and named for their two daughters, Leila and Lucie. It had opened in August 2019, just months before the pandemic upended the restaurant business for everyone. The space sat empty for a while after it closed.
Aunt Jake's is taking it over now. It's a handmade-pasta concept founded by Nick Boccio that already has a following on Manhattan's Upper East Side, now expanding east into Huntington. Harley's brings Michael LoManto's Farmingdale restaurant to a second location in the former Pomodorino space. Along with Aunt Jake's, it is one of two operators entering Huntington from outside the village.
One Building Split in Two
The clearest illustration of how much of this turnover is subdivision rather than wholesale replacement is the old Finley's building. Mighty Fine took over the restaurant side in March 2026. Published, a concept that combines a bookstore, café, espresso bar, and cocktails, is opening next door in what used to be Finley's bar space. One address, one former tenant, two new identities operating side by side under different names. It's the same story as the restaurant rows a block over, just made visible inside a single building instead of spread across a strip.
What the Fall Calendar Looks Like Downtown
None of this happens in isolation from the rest of the village's calendar. Huntington Main Street runs its Market on Main Street series on the third Friday of the month from April through October, and the October edition carries an Oktoberfest theme, with vendors and shopping from 3 to 7 p.m. followed by an After Hours stretch from 7 to 9 p.m. that specifically features drinks from local restaurants and bars. That after-hours window is built to route foot traffic straight into the same storefronts this piece has been tracing, whether that means a cocktail at Kahani or a plate at Pasta Joint.
The Paramount adds its own pull to the same few blocks this fall. Escape the Fate and Bad Wolves come through October 4. Comedy Bang! Bang! Live! is booked for October 6, and the venue's November calendar includes a two-night Mike DelGuidice concert weekend benefiting veterans on November 13 and 14. Every one of those dates fills the sidewalks with people looking for dinner before curtain, which means the restaurant math above isn't just a curiosity about who owns what. It's a live map of where a Friday or Saturday night downtown is actually going to be busy this season.
This year's openings include additional restaurants from two families already active in the village, alongside businesses entering from elsewhere. The ownership and location details offer one way to understand the changes along downtown's restaurant blocks.
Team Levine pays attention to this kind of block-by-block detail because it's part of actually knowing a place, not just listing it. If you're curious what else has changed on your own street this season, reach out any time.
