Fedora chef Zach Robinson is turning West Village wine bar St. Jardim into a one-night izakaya pop-up next Monday, trading wine snacks for skewers and small plates. Service starts at 5:30 p.m. and runs through the evening, with limited seating and reservations required. Robinson is using the takeover as a focused trial run of izakaya-style cooking.
Small Plates, Skewers And A Cheesecake
Robinson’s menu leans into izakaya-style small plates and skewers, including oysters with ponzu and red plum, pork-belly enoki maki, curry shrimp skewers, ginger tsukune chicken meatballs and black-garlic butter shiitakes. He is also planning stuffed shishito peppers with beef and cream cheese, plus a New York–style sake-lees cheesecake for dessert. Robinson flagged the curry shrimp, the stuffed shishitos and the sake-lees cheesecake as must-orders, and told amNewYork that “this pop-up is a test of the last four years of my professional cooking career” and that he started cooking professionally at 17.
Where To Go And How To Book
The takeover appears on Resy as “Zach Robinson x Jardim” and runs from 5:30–9:30 p.m. at St. Jardim, 183 W. 10th St. Reservations are available through Resy, while the restaurant’s own site lists its address and regular hours and describes St. Jardim as a neighborhood wine bar focused on natural wines and seasonal plates; see St. Jardim for details.
Why The One-Night Test Matters
Pop-ups remain a low-overhead way for cooks to sharpen their voice and build a following before committing to a full-time restaurant, and Robinson’s izakaya night fits that mold neatly. As amNewYork notes, pop-ups are a key platform for young chefs to establish their identity, and this single-evening experiment will test how Robinson’s take on casual Japanese drinking food lands with St. Jardim’s crowd.
