Lower East Side natural wine bar Babysips is spinning off with a new spot in Brooklyn this year with double the space. New wine bar and restaurant Bodega Nights will open in Bushwick at 425 Troutman Street, near St. Nicholas Avenue, in March.
Co-owners David Wilson and Zoe Clifton are applying their same Babysips approach to Bodega Nights. That means wines made with smaller productions and minimal interventions, drawing from their experiences working in the wine region of Catalonia in Spain, and Wilson’s time in Brazil.
Boeda Night’s food will follow suit, with Iberian and Brazilian dishes in the works like salt cod fritters and house-made sausages. Then there are larger steaks and whole fish paired with broccoli rice, grilled vegetables, and Portuguese-style potatoes.
The much-larger restaurant’s name plays on NYC’s one-stop shops and the word used for wine warehouses in Spain. The 2,200-square-foot setup includes an outdoor space in the front. The logo is cute, with a pigeon pouring itself some wine from a bottle balanced on its head.
David and Zoe met while working at Flatiron modern Mexican restaurant Cosme in 2017, he as prep cook, she as line cook. They opened Babysips in May 2025 with the tagline of being a “working glass wine bar.”