Greenpoint’s Pan Pan Vino Vino has joined forces with Bushwick’s Falansai to reinvent the space at 120 Norman Avenue.
Pan Pan Vino Vino’s Michelle Lobo told Greenpointers that she and her team “joined forces” with Falansai’s Chef Eric Tran to bring Falansai to Pan Pan. After a week of minor renovations, 120 Norman Avenue reopened yesterday as Falansai, with a “new name,” but the “same vibes.”
Lobo confirmed that the new Falansai location will follow the same concept as Pan Pan Vino Vino. It will be a bakery by day with the “same Pan Pan crew” and a wine bar by night, but with Vietnamese and Mexican twists, influenced by Chef Tran’s heritage.
The daytime menu will stay the same “for the moment” according to Lobo, but new additions are coming soon as Chef Tran looks to add on some more Vietnamese and Mexican flavors.
Dinner service starts on Wednesday, November 5, with a new menu and wine list. It will be entirely Chef Tran’s existing Falansai concept and his sole focus, as he closed Falansai’s Bushwick location.
Falansai’s tight nightly menu includes things like Vietnamese tamales with confit duck neck or bok choy, roasted bass with vermicelli noodles, and roasted Berkshire pork skewers.
“Our menu is evolving as Eric continues to execute an ambitious menu in a bakery set up,” Lobo told Greenpointers.
The bakery will be open daily 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. and Falansai will be open Thursday through Sunday 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Too rich for my blood. Good luck to them.
Build an expensive trendy hipster restaurant and they will come, just like in the Field of Dreams.
This place has a serious identity crisis. Another attempt that’s bound to fail
They need to stop trying to force TikTok influencer dining into this quiet neighborhood area. This isn’t the place for lines of people taking photos of their food or blocking the sidewalk just to get a shot. The community has always valued peace and local charm, and these trendy pop-up spots ruin that.
Very excited for Falansai to relocate to the Greenpoint neighborhood. It’s nice to see that the bakery will still be there but that the restaurant will be run with a new twist. Can’t think of many restaurants in the GP neighborhood who have the vibe as Falansai’s, so definitely welcoming a fresh start to the location.
People like Paul and Scott are just the worst. Support small businesses. Chef Tran is a killer chef too.