Chinese Pop-Up Eatery Gets Permanent Home In Greenwich Village

GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — After more than two successful months of business in Greenwich Village, a pop-up Chinese restaurant is getting a permanent home in the neighborhood.

The popular restaurant chain Junzi Kitchen opened the Nice Day pop-up Chinese eatery in August with a focus on classic American-Chinese flavors.

Nice Day is now set to permanently take over the Junzi Kitchen establishment at 170 Bleecker Street, according to Eater New York.

"Nice Day was founded by friends with deep personal and professional connections to Chinese food," an Our Story section reads on the restaurant's website. "We saw an opportunity to make sure that American Chinese food, a wonderfully inventive and flavorful regional Chinese cuisine, would endure so all of us could keep saying, 'let's order Chinese.'"

The pop-up joint now turned permanent Greenwich Village fixture is part of Junzi's goal to modernize traditional Chinese takeout restaurants and save New York City's hurting Chinese delivery scene.

Junzi launched its first restaurant in 2015, and it has quickly become one of the more popular casual Chinese joints in New York City. The restaurant group has locations in Bryant Park, Greenwich Village, Morningside Heights, and Lower Manhattan.

Nice Day is open from 5 to 9 p.m. during the workweek, and noon to 9 p.m. on weekends.

The Chinese restaurant offers classic dishes such as steamed pork dumplings, spring rolls, sweet & sour chicken, and more. You can check out the full menu here.