Restaurants & Bars
New UWS Tapas Restaurant Opens In Former Home Of The Ellington
Calaveras Corner opened Monday at 936 Amsterdam Avenue, near the corner of West 106th Street.
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A new American tapas eatery opened Monday on the Upper West Side at the former home of The Ellington restaurant.
Calaveras Corner opened at 936 Amsterdam Avenue, near the corner of West 106th Street.
The new joint has a lunch and dinner menu, offering everything from Maine crab cakes to steamed dumplings to vegetable empanadas. The restaurant focuses on tapas styled plates and is offering both indoor and outdoor dining.
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You can read the full menu on the restaurant's website.
The restaurant is currently open from 5 to 10:30 p.m. Monday to Sunday, and has started the process of getting its liquor license.
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Calaveras Corner is taking over the space formerly home to The Ellington, which closed in July 2020. Owners of the popular bar and restaurant said the space was too small to properly social distance, but are reopening in 2021 at a new location at 2475 Broadway.
The restaurant will deploy a large blue tent to give cover to the outdoor diners, and it is also installing an air ventilation system within the establishment.
Owners of Calaveras Corner are not new to the Upper West Side neighborhood, as they opened a Mexican restaurant in January called The Calaveras NYC on Columbus Avenue, between West 106th and 107th Streets.
"We love the community," Natalie Soto, one of the owners of Calaveras Corner and a resident of the Upper West Side, told Patch.
You can stay up to date on important information from Calaveras Corner on its Instagram page.
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