Cool Brooklyn Restaurant Duo Hops to Manhattan for New Restaurant
The co-owners of Brooklyn restaurants, the stylish Montague Diner and hip Charli XCX afterparty site Margot are opening a new rotisserie restaurant in Manhattan; Substack FeedMe broke the news. Halley Chambers and Kip Green will open Cleo Downtown in the West Village at 621 Hudson Street at Jane Street in the spring of 2026.
The 35-seat restaurant will focus on rotisserie-cooked meats and vegetables. We're 'even more excited to bring our version of hospitality to Manhattan,' Chambers writes to Eater over email.
Chambers and Green opened their first restaurant, Margot, in May 2023, with a French menu courtesy of opening chef Alexia Duchêne. A month later, the co-owners decided to turn Margot into a more casual restaurant, with Duchêne leaving the business. (The chef just recently opened her own French restaurant, Le Chêne, in the same West Village neighborhood as Cleo earlier this month.) The duo's next project was Montague Diner in 2024, the revamp of what was Happy Days Diner.
Previously, Chambers had been the former director of the Oberon Group, behind Brooklyn places such as wine bars June and Rhodora, and Italian restaurant Rucola. Greene had cooked at restaurants such as Brooklyn Scandinavian spot Aska and Eleven Madison Park. She had cooked at June, too, and later became its general manager.
Cleo is taking over what was Piccolo Angolo. The family-run Italian restaurant opened in 1992 but closed at the end of 2024.
This Brooklyn-into-Manhattan move is part of a larger trend of Kings County restaurateurs crossing the East River to open their next restaurants, a reverse of what had been typically done in the past. See More:
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