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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE12.4 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as April 2014, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]The Robbins family's five-generation oyster farm opens an open-air saloon on the western shore of Hood Canal, serving oysters pulled from the water in view.0.61Restaurant Naides Opens in San Francisco
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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE3.8 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as November 2022, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]Chef Serigne Mbaye opens a Senegalese fine-dining restaurant tracing the West African roots of Louisiana Creole cooking; in 2026 it moved to a larger space.0.60Meju Opens in Long Island City
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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1/33.6 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as January 2023, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]Chef Hooni Kim opens a small, fermentation-focused Korean restaurant at the back of a banchan shop in Long Island City, Queens.0.60Korai Kitchen Opens in Jersey City
576, Summit Avenue, Indian Square, Croxton, Journal Square, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, 07306, United StatesKorai Kitchen
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE8.6 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as February 2018, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]Nur-E Gulshan Rahman and her daughter Nur-E Farhana Rahman open a small Bangladeshi restaurant in Jersey City, starting out as a daily home-cooking buffet.0.60Ain Dubai Reopens After Nearly Three Years Closed
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CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE7.7 years agoConfirmed against contemporaneous reporting of the reclamation completion ceremony. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "the reclamation of 269 hectares from the Indian Ocean".Sri Lanka finishes reclaiming 269 hectares of land from the Indian Ocean off Colombo, laying the ground for the Chinese-backed Port City Colombo financial district.0.60The London Museum Opens in Smithfield's General Market
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ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as March 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]Felipe Oliveira and Hiro Tagai, of ramen bar Koyoté, open an itameshi restaurant - Japanese-Italian cooking - in Salt Lake City.0.59OK Chicken and Khao Soi Opens in Pok Pok's Old Home
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The Ledbury127 Ledbury Road, Westbourne, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, United Kingdom
ESTIMATED70% CONFIDENCE4.6 years agoWikipedia[1] says the restaurant "reopened in February 2022" without naming a day, so the pin sits on the last day of that month, as a month-only date does.Brett Graham's Notting Hill restaurant came back in February 2022 after a closure long enough to cost it its Michelin stars - not by losing them on the plate, but because a shut restaurant cannot be assessed, and the trading restrictions of the pandemic made reopening impractical for its kind of room. It had held two stars from 2010 until 2021, and it regained them after the return.0.59
