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When M. Wells Steakhouse in Long Island City closed down after ten years in business at the end of last year, New Yorkers mourned the loss of the restaurant both in person and online.
This week, we give them reason to rejoice: according to Eater, the iconic eatery will be relocating inside New York Distilling Company in Bushwick starting March 30, running both a weekend culinary series event and "a more regular food program at the site."
Let's start with the former: during the next five Sundays, M. Wells Steakhouse will host a Sugar Shack series at 573 Johnson Avenue, honoring co-owner Hugue Dufour's Québécois heritage. From late February to early April in Quebec, families gather around sugar shacks in the woods, cabins where sap is collected from nearby maple trees. Folks sit at long tables and enjoy a maple-heavy, Canadian meal while listening to rigodon music and square dancing.
On this side of the Atlantic, M. Wells' brunch series will feature "family-style feasting over platters of glazed ribs, belly baked beans, chicken pastillas, pâté, cured fish, scallops and seafood sausage, aged foie gras in duck," reads the event's official website. Plus "pots of pickles and house bread with wheels of creamy cheese," a whole lot of desserts and much more.
Tickets are available on Resy for all pop-up dates right here.
Although Eater reports that there are also "plans for a more regular food program at the site, more in line with a restaurant," no specific announcement has yet been made about potential projects of a more permanent basis.
This will be only the latest iteration of M. Wells Steakhouse in New York. In addition to its decade-old location in Long Island City, the restaurant at one time operated an outpost inside MoMa PS1 and a diner in Queens in 2010. Clearly, the steakhouse is not going anywhere.