{"id":300591,"date":"2026-07-20T14:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300591\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:08:27","slug":"ev-grieve-openings-dim-sum-bloom-on-1st-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300591\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: Openings: Dim Sum Bloom on 1st Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgunXA2h7YtdhzRAQz7io_QEiF0Izj7pCShbkXqjHuQsCsl-LGbusWWllUvs5miucJ90iKGfKiP13-uvbF-auBMr0pcbv3E-Vk_nZBEk_3pU9St7nS-f_P22Y1-1D6xUnQV4w8uL6GqSjpCn-1cN8_q4JB5rkP-OoQLOqC4PVZmT3ogInDdj3klkeAxaLM\/s2272\/viruswalk_7-17-26_r_w_005.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-17-26_r_w_005.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumbloom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dim Sum Bloom<\/a> has opened at 228 First Ave., between 13th and 14th Streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fast-casual restaurant specializes in dumplings, noodles, fried rice and other Chinese comfort-food favorites. This is the brand&#8217;s latest outpost, following its 2023 debut on the Upper West Side and expansions to Queens and other locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of Dim Sum Bloom&#8217;s calling cards is its high-tech kitchen. The restaurant bills itself as home to &#8220;NYC&#8217;s only robotic kitchen,&#8221; with a fully automated robot handling the stir-fry station &#8230; while cooks prepare the dumplings and other appetizers by hand. (Staff declined requests for any robot pics.)<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgJCHUyxhGWX6wmsHx4Pwh8xe5xIT4gVIGQxZCHm1C8biV_i0-oQX_XL83tvoOIKp0fjzp1MscU2dYVMSXmAOx5l1tv7RzJmla6Qwx2dV62Zc5wSZduhR2_pBCIsuGmCKz204kwOJcbXUp_7s1iS_-j3DPGMcSMDQkJNQFmb4yszLRxqe7iwH00px7qbH4\/s2272\/viruswalk_7-17-26_r_w_043.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-17-26_r_w_043.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new East Village location also features two spacious dining rooms for those eating in. (FYI: No alcohol. Drinks include soda and various fruit and milk teas.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjPhWppbt4PucyMoTf3tqISYk0-NtDAmlxTRBJ0mK7vzkL3X75V45v-oFJxYvMOwWLKaS2dGXxUUbGTQIJPitOEqIXRt6ULJV7XOg_GZyLhTTkBMj-GANhbg8Uj9LspeCWQ5QIuUy4wPMBXXRp_nCmmPn-XgkJhgjDGDIyZiDiJ6hxaKWrDjJKmKgSu2sk\/s2272\/viruswalk_7-17-26_r_w_056.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-17-26_r_w_056.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with a noon start on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhAAhQhjjdCIxlHWouxD8HREiihnrT2QScw8guoia0ET4p8SJmbwS6weHLnA0_XqLr5WFeJjN149ZRIe2sFdpvS8zJtvgFf8fuwLaVdfxx1duvPjTb70Mg2_3YbWQC4oY29nEfuBW0s2qIewVQLXP00JVGZcCGoXb3Os7K7VrakSqy5u9DXWhzqVDUPiuQ\/s1704\/viruswalk_7-17-26_r_w_036.jpg\" style=\"display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/viruswalk_7-17-26_r_w_036.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The previous tenant here was <a href=\"https:\/\/evgrieve.com\/2026\/01\/taverna-east-village-has-been-closed.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taverna East Village<\/a>, which went dark in December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Dim Sum Bloom has opened at 228 First Ave., between 13th and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-300591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300591","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=300591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}