Cafe Henri owners Winston Kulok and Carole Bergman Kulok open this American bistro and wine bar in the brick-lined cellar that once housed Zinc Bar. Wine consultant John Slover (Cru, Blue Hill) has assembled a list of roughly 230 bottles of mostly old-world wines, which are broken into three sections: by-the-glass, market and reserve lists. To encourage tasting, drinkers can purchase half of any bottle on the market list—which, unlike the reserve selection, tends toward younger wines from lesser-known regions—for half price. Among the stiffer beverages are a series of cocktails named for Gotham’s famous Henrys, such as the Henry Hudson (rye and ginger ale), while the food menu covers standards like roasted chicken, steak and mushroom-barley soup.
