{"id":191187,"date":"2026-04-09T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191187\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:43:09","slug":"veselka-brings-back-24-hour-service-starting-april-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191187\/","title":{"rendered":"Veselka Brings Back 24-Hour Service Starting April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few things more comforting than a plate of pierogi at an hour when most of the city has given up on being awake<\/a>\u2014and now, blessedly, that ritual is back.<\/p>\n

East Village institution Veselka<\/a> is officially returning to 24-hour service starting on Friday, April 17, after a multi-year-long hiatus. To start, the restaurant will run 24 hours on Fridays and Saturdays, easing back into the schedule that once made it a beacon for night owls, early risers and everyone in between.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve ever stumbled out of a bar at 2:47 am and made a beeline to Second Avenue, you already know why this matters.<\/p>\n

For decades, Veselka was an unofficial community center where club kids, cab drivers, students and insomniacs all ended up sharing tables over borscht and blintzes. The restaurant first made the leap to 24\/7 service in 1990, embracing East Village\u2019s anything-goes energy and quickly becoming what many thought of as the neighborhood\u2019s \u201cliving room.\u201d<\/p>\n

That all changed during the pandemic, when, like many restaurants, Veselka had to cut back its hours for the first time in decades. Staffing challenges and shifting industry norms made the return to 24-hour dining slower than anyone would\u2019ve liked. (And nationwide, the number of 24-hour restaurants has dropped significantly since 2020<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

But Veselka never lost its place in the city\u2019s fabric. Founded more than 70 years ago as a newsstand serving the neighborhood\u2019s Ukrainian immigrant community, it has since grown into one of the city\u2019s most enduring comfort-food landmarks, while still managing to feel like your friend\u2019s kitchen, albeit with better pierogi.<\/p>\n

Those pierogi are\u2014shockingly\u2014still the real headline here. Handmade daily, they\u2019re the kind of dish that somehow hits even harder at 3 am, whether you go with a classic potato-and-cheese or upgrade to the short rib. (And don\u2019t sleep on adding in a bowl of deep, earthy borscht or a plate of stuffed cabbage for the full experience.)<\/p>\n

The return of late-night hours is a small but meaningful signal that New York\u2019s after-hours culture is finding its footing again. So yes, you can once again eat like it\u2019s midnight\u2026 at 3 am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are few things more comforting than a plate of pierogi at an hour when most of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2590,9,24,55,54,2591,56,821],"class_list":{"0":"post-191187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-categories-restaurants","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-news-eating","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}