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Fifty Norman, the mini Japanese marketplace that opened in Greenpoint in 2022 to massive success, is physically expanding its store and adding a few new businesses and brands under its roof.
Starting this week, you’ll find three additional shops on site. A French/Japanese inspired cafe-slash-bar is also scheduled to debut in June.
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Currently at 50 Norman, you’ll find Cibone, a Japanese home design store selling ceramics, kitchenware, zen meditation items and art pieces; Dashi Okume, where you can custom order your own blends of dashi packs; and House Brooklyn, a Japanese-French restaurant with a nine-course omakase tasting menu.
The new stores include Balmuda, a Japanese home appliance store; Kama-Asa, a kitchenware purveyor from Tokyo’s kitchen-street Kappabashi that will sell a range of Amane knives; and Cibone O’Te, an artisanal design retailer focusing on homeware and furnishings.
The cozy café-resto-bar opening in June is Cafe O’te, which mixes the ambiance of a French wine bar with Japanese flavors.
This is just the latest piece of news involving the resurgence of Japanese and Japanese-inspired stores across NYC. From a new food market curated by Muji that opened in Chelsea Market earlier this year to the new Bandai Namco store in Industry City and the resurgence of Japan-inspired claw machine arcades, we are squarely in the midst of a full-blown Japanese cultural renaissance in the city.
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