How to book Penny

Penny is a raw bar and seafood counter at 90 East 10th Street in Manhattan's East Village¹. It comes from chef Joshua Pinsky and wine director Chase Sinzer, both veterans of Momofuku Ko, who also run the wine bar Claud on the floor below⁴. Penny opened on March 25, 2024, and takes its name from Pinsky's grandfather Benny, whose nickname was "Penny"³.

The room is reached by a flight of stairs past a lavender neon "P" and is a deep, narrow space where every seat faces one long marble counter, about 30 seats in all^4,5. The chefs work in plain view behind the bar, and the wine is kept in a room stocked to the ceiling behind the diners⁵. The Michelin Guide lists Penny as a fish and seafood restaurant⁶.

The short menu is served à la carte and is almost entirely seafood⁴. It starts with raw bar items served in a custom "ice box", a cooler take on the seafood tower, with oysters, clams, mussels and shrimp, and moves on to small plates such as razor clams with giardiniera, an oyster pan roast under puff pastry, stuffed squid and Dover sole with bone marrow, plus whole lobster^3,4,5. Brioche baked behind the counter, a nod to the Pinsky family's challah, opens many meals^3,4.

Wine is central. Beyond a short list by the glass, the full list of around 1,000 bottles, mostly European, is available on request⁵, and the Michelin Guide named Sinzer and Ellis Srubas-Giammanco its New York 2024 Sommelier Award winners⁶. Reservations open 14 days ahead at 9am on Resy, and walk-in seats are kept every night^1,2. The New York Times put Penny on its 2024 list of 50 favorite restaurants in America⁷.