What’s opening in New York?
5,182 food openingsJan 2025–Aug 2026as of Sep 12, 2026
Inspection-based cohort, not a still-open census. How we check the data
Pick a borough. Tap a cuisine to see the labels inside.
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- Less data setup. Prepared tools for inspections, licenses, property and other civic records.
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Opened NYC / The cuisine issue
A city of appetites.
American leads. Coffee follows. But cross a borough line, and the mix changes. This is a conservative floor of new food openings from city inspection records, January 1, 2025–August 31, 2026.
First DOHMH Pre-permit (Operational) inspections. Inspection date ≠ customer open day. This is not a still-open census.
02 / Same city. Different mix.
Where the openings landed.
Manhattan has the largest share of this floor. Select a borough to explore its cuisine mix.
Shares above use the citywide denominator of 5,182. Bronx and Staten Island have smaller cohorts; these counts do not establish a boom or slowdown.
03 / The fine print
How we check the data
A floor. Not the whole story. The definitions, exclusions and downloadable counts behind this analysis are below.
- What counts as an opening?
- First DOHMH Pre-permit (Operational) inspection in the window: Jan 1, 2025–Aug 31, 2026, across the five boroughs. This is the civic floor. Re-permits, ownership-change and suspected-reopening flags are excluded; fallback records are out.
- What does the date mean?
- The inspection date is a civic record, not the customer-facing opening day. This is a conservative floor of new openings, not a census of businesses still open today. Counted on Sep 12, 2026: later inspection records can show a few were ownership changes, so a fresh count can come out slightly lower.
- What do the cuisine labels mean?
- House
primary_categorygroups, not menus. Raw DOHcuisine_descriptionlabels supply the detail inside the groups. “Other” and “Other Asian” are residual buckets. “Chinese” is a stored house group; its latest DOH labels can differ. These records do not establish a Sichuan/Cantonese breakdown. - What is “All other (9)”?
- The combined C17 groups ranked 11–19: 962 openings, or 18.56% of the floor. The named “Other” category is already in the top 10.
Keep the claim as specific as the count.
American leads this cohort of new openings. That does not make it the largest cuisine across all NYC restaurants. These records do not establish a boom, a slowdown, or a complete picture of regional cuisines.
The main chart includes full DOH label breakdowns for the city and each borough. Counts come from the same 5,182-opening cohort and reconcile to all supplied category totals. The latest-label extraction differs slightly from the original graphic; one conflicting Brooklyn label is marked unresolved. Subgroup percentages use the selected cuisine group and borough as their denominator.
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CSV spreadsheets with the numbers behind this chart.