Two new restaurants, Yamasaki and Bueno, are set to open this Monday inside a painstakingly restored early‑1900s bank at 25 Broad Street in Manhattan's Financial District. The twin concepts, from SK Hospitality Group, stack an inventive Japanese tasting room upstairs over a Latin‑inspired tapas lounge below, all under the supervision of culinary director Steve Song. The ground‑floor and lower‑level spaces reuse original bank details, including a former vault that now separates dining areas. Taken together, the dual debut ranks as one of the most notable restaurant rollouts in FiDi this spring.
Historic Bank Gets a New Hospitality Life
SK Hospitality's two concepts fill roughly 15,000 square feet in the Broad Exchange Building across from the New York Stock Exchange, part of a broader effort to wake up the block's street‑level retail. Commercial Observer detailed the landlord and tenant representatives behind the lease and noted that the lower level once operated as a walk‑in bank vault. That history is now a design flex, with Bueno's dining room framed by original safety‑deposit boxes and the hulking vault door serving as the conversation piece you can see from your table.
Two Distinct Dining Concepts
According to Markets of Tomorrow, Yamasaki takes over the ground floor with seating for about 200 guests, anchored by a 12‑seat bar, while Bueno moves into the lower level with roughly 180 seats and a glass‑encased private room for ten. Both restaurants are scheduled to open on Monday.
Yamasaki's program centers on a seven‑course tasting menu that features dishes such as toro tartare, uni pasta and miso‑glazed black cod, alongside an à la carte sushi selection. Downstairs, Bueno leans into Latin small plates, including ceviches, empanadas and tacos, with a lively lounge vibe that plays off the building's original bank architecture.
Menus, Hours and Reservations
Each restaurant's official site funnels diners directly to its booking platform: YAMASAKI links to OpenTable, while BUENO sends guests to Resy, and both list 25 Broad Street as their address. Reservations are already available through those platforms as well as the restaurants' own reservation pages. Inside, the spaces and menus are built around shareable plates and cocktail programs meant to handle both after‑work crowds and weekend diners lingering over another round.
What This Adds to FiDi
The openings tap into the Financial District's ongoing evolution from a strictly 9‑to‑5 office zone into a fuller, around‑the‑clock neighborhood with more housing and nightlife, a shift closely watched by local real‑estate firms. Brown Harris Stevens and others point to the area's growing residential base and expanding dining scene, which operators hope will support evening business well beyond the traditional workday. For SK Hospitality, stacking two distinct concepts under one landmark roof is a calculated bet on those changing foot‑traffic patterns and FiDi's appetite for new dining destinations.
