While 2016 has seen some top restaurants close, including Betony on West 57th Street’s “Billionaires Row” and Da Silvano, it has also seen some brand explosions.
Black Tap Craft Burgers and Beers, from Michelin-starred chef Joe Isidori, which started off as a 15-seat burger bar at 529 Broome St. last year, became a cult phenom thanks to its Instagram-worthy milkshakes.
The $15 shakes come studded in grand cupcake-like style, covered in colorful candies, cookies and cotton candy.
There’s now an expanded 1,200 square-foot subterranean space below the burger bar, with graffiti art by Fumeroism, a Black Tap in the Meatpacking District at 248 W. 14th St. and an even larger, 2,400 square-foot space in Midtown that recently opened at the Blakely New York hotel at 136 W. 55th St.
Now Side Dish can reveal exclusively that Black Tap will also be opening at the Dumbo Market in Brooklyn, at 55 Water St., this spring.
Another Black Tap is expected to open in the trendy Lower East Side by summer.
Isidori’s Greg Norman burger won the New York City Food and Wine Festival’s Burger Bash award for the past two years in a row.
The burgers, Korean-style chicken wings, salads and milkshakes are still drawing crowds, who line up around the block to get a table.