Husband and wife team Misako and Robert Hsu are opening their first restaurant this summer in Greenpoint. The restaurant will be called Lingo and serve New American cuisine with a Japanese flair.
There was some thought behind the restaurant’s name. “Lingo” stems from the Japanese term for apple, a nod to New York’s nickname The Big Apple, and the Japanese slang word for foreign language.
“We like to interpret Lingo as something shared between a…
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