"Dean's is all about British seafood, inspired by Shadbolt's hometown of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in England. "As you get older, you start to feel: 'I've certainly found a feeling of real nostalgia for British cooking,'" she says. "This is a combination of bringing together my love of fish and bringing a new perspective of that food to New York City," with inspiration drawn from British coastlines she knows well. "Very simple, but classic and heritage," she adds. "Delicate cooking.""
"In fact, the restaurant is named after a dayboat fisherman from her British seaside town, Dean Fryer. She describes him as the "last remaining dayboat fisherman on the beach," from whom she and others would always purchase their seafood through the years. (Fryer has an open invitation to attend his namesake restaurant's eventual opening; he was originally nervous about flights, Shadbolt recounts, but he eventually said he'd come.)"
Co-owners chef Jess Shadbolt and Annie Shi will open Dean's at 213 Sixth Avenue near King Street in Soho in winter 2025 or early 2026. The table-service restaurant will focus on British seafood inspired by Shadbolt's hometown of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, emphasizing delicate, classic, heritage cooking and raw seafood offerings. The restaurant is named for dayboat fisherman Dean Fryer, who supplied seafood locally and has an open invitation to the opening. The opening joins a broader New York seafood moment and follows the partners' expansions, including King (2016), Jupiter (2022), Lei (opened in June), and Stissing House operations; King Cookbook arrives in November.
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