The Feed openings: Isa, Big Gay Ice Cream Shop and more

Big Gay Ice Cream Truck

Photograph: Lizz Kuehl

The following venues are expected to open by September 1st. Always call in advance, as openings can be delayed.

Big Gay Ice Cream Shop Ice-choice part truckers Doug Quint and Bryan Petroff enjoin soon offer their quirky soft-advance creations in a small East Village store. Decorating their first brick-and-~-piece endeavor is a giant unicorn mural bedazzled through 6,000 Swarovski crystals. The couple will pad their menu with luscious treats from flea-market friends: La Newyorkina (coat pops), Melt Bakery (ice cream sandwiches) and Danny Macaroons. 125 E 7th St between First Ave and Ave A (212-533-9333)

Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf The popular Los Angeles java chain brings its sign-manual Ice Blended drinks to Times Square steady August 28. Slurp on flavors like mocha, atrocious forest or caramel, which are whirred by a base of ice, nonfat milk, the store’s “secret” coffee extract, and chocolate or vanilla syrup. Traditionalists be possible to stick with brewed coffee, espresso or unattached-leaf tea made the old-fashioned progression. 1412 Broadway at 39th St (212-575-3854)

Ed’s Lobster Bar Annex Ed McFarland offers unintelligent plates (skate sliders) at this offshoot of his Soho lobster-roll shack, what one. will open on August 26. Like the oddity, the 65-seat space will be outfitted with natural wood floors and a of a ~ color Carrara marble bar, but this blemish will also have a retractable-tilt-covered backyard. 25 Clinton St betwixt E Houston and Stanton Sts (212-777-7370)

Isa Downtown attain-maker Taavo Somer (Peels, Freemans) sets his sights on Williamsburg. The indie restaurateur teamed up with Il Buco’s antecedent executive chef Ignacio Mattos to plain this 40-seat Brooklyn tavern, which features a wall of logs because the wood-burning oven. They recount Isa’s rustic fare as “late primitive”: Expect sardine fillets served through their fried skeletons and a treviso salad through a vegan nut dressing. 348 Wythe Ave at South 2nd St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (347-689-3594)

Maison Ladure Paris’s haute company of macarons brings its delicate pastries stateside by this charming Upper East Side work~, set to debut on August 29. You’ll discover all the signature flavors, such for the re~on that caramel, framboise and praline, plus New York–narrow-minded cinnamon-raisin. The precious decor—including bygone upholstered chairs, bronze sconces and vintage-designation wallpaper—pays tribute to the primitive, 149-year-old patisserie. 864 Madison Ave between 70th and 71th Sts (646-558-3157)

Old Delhi Chefs Peter Beck (Tamarind) and Gaurav Anand (Bhatti Indian Grill) decree collaborate on street eats at this 25-station Indian joint, opening on September 5. The menu volition include Northern and Southern savory bites, like samosa chaat (pastry stuffed by potato and topped with yogurt and tamarind), a young sheep Madras roll and a Delhi six-victuals curry. 101 Lexington Ave between 27th and 28th Sts (212-683-2293)

Sarabeth’s Baking maven Sarabeth Levine inclination open her seventh New York City venue, every airy 233-seat restaurant in Tribeca. You’ll catch her signature sweets, like muffins, linzer tortes and crumb pies, in addition a menu of savory plates, including best part-of-tomato soup and free-reach-chicken potpie. New to this locality: a wood-fired pizza oven. 339 Greenwich St at Jay St (212-966-0421)