Greenwich This Fall: Familiar Addresses, New Names, and the Old Favorites That Came Back
October 8, 2026
October 8, 2026
How long can a grocery store sit empty in Glenville before people stop expecting it back? The answer turned out to be a little over three years. On Wednesday, September 9, DeCicco & Sons cut the ribbon at 21 Glenville Street. The space had been vacant since Stop & Shop closed in June 2023. First Selectman Fred Camillo called it "probably the most anticipated business opening we've ever had in Greenwich."
Nearly every name that arrived in Greenwich this summer and fall took over an address the town already knew. A Chinese restaurant from 1988 handed its space to a new one. A limestone building on the Avenue got its third tenant in a decade and a half. Two local favorites closed suddenly in August and reopened within weeks under the people who had run them all along. The arrivals that drew the warmest response were the ones that gave back something Greenwich had lost.
The DeCicco's opening was a family occasion. Three generations greeted shoppers before the 10:30 a.m. ribbon-cutting. John Sr. talked his family into buying their first Bronx grocery in 1973. His son John Jr. is the company's CEO, and John Jr.'s son John was there too. Greenwich is the chain's 12th store and its first outside New York. About 25 people were waiting before the 7:30 a.m. opening. By late morning the Glen Plaza Shopping Center parking lot was full.
The three-year gap was only partly about finding a tenant. Planning and Zoning approved the plans in 2024. After that, permitting delays and a retaining wall problem pushed the timeline back. "It was a long 18-month period, but finally it's come to an end," John Jr. said at the ceremony. Selectwoman Lauren Rabin, who has lived in Glenville for 23 years, said she was there when the doors opened. She noted that the neighborhood had gone more than three years without a grocery store.
The store inside is new in its own way. DeCicco's hired the Schweitzer Group, a retail design firm based in South Tyrol, Italy, to fit out the interior. It is the first DeCicco's the firm has designed. The kitchens where meat, fish and baked goods are prepared are more visible to shoppers than in the chain's earlier stores. Departments include produce, deli, natural meats, daily seafood, cheese, sushi, baked goods, coffee, juice, chopped salads and craft beer. There are also hot and salad bars and prepared dinners. Hours are 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday. At the ceremony, Camillo mentioned the DeCicco family's roots in Calabria and Greenwich's large Calabrese community.
A few minutes away, Glenville gained a dinner option over the summer. Greenwich Grill opened July 15 at 328 Pemberwick Road, in the space Centro used to occupy. It serves American food and cocktails, with patio seating that looks out on the waterfall. The restaurant's website takes reservations and lists dinner hours every night: 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. So the same stretch of Glenville now has both a grocery store and a waterfall patio, each in a space the neighborhood already knew.
The Beaux Arts limestone building at 265 Greenwich Avenue has had a busy fifteen years. Ralph Lauren was there from 2009 to 2017. SaksWorks opened in 2021 as a membership co-working club, with an upstairs restaurant called Ruby & Bella's. Both closed in 2023. That upstairs dining room was possible only because Planning & Zoning changed the rules in August 2021. The change allowed restaurants on the second floor of two-story buildings in the CGBR zone, as long as one kitchen serves them.
RH Estates, The Gallery on Greenwich Avenue, held its ribbon-cutting on Thursday, September 10, with Camillo and Selectwomen Rachel Khanna and Lauren Rabin attending. It is the first North American location for the RH Estates concept and the brand's first freestanding Estates gallery. A second is planned for Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles in 2027. This is a new concept, but RH has been on the Avenue for years. The company once traded as Restoration Hardware at 239 Greenwich Avenue, which is now Betteridge Jewelers. It later moved into the Historic Post Office at 310 Greenwich Avenue and opened RH Outdoor at 264. With 265 open, RH now runs three buildings within a few doors of each other in the Greenwich Avenue Historic District.
For anyone who doesn't need furniture, the reason to go is Cucina Angelina. The 88-seat Italian restaurant is named for Angelina Ascari, the mother of RH CEO Gary Friedman. The room has European oak millwork, herringbone floors and velvet banquettes. The menu covers Italian classics and wood-fired pizza, and there is a bar of light Emperador marble. It opens at 11 a.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. on weekends. It closes at 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and on Sunday, and at 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Panda Pavilion opened at 420 West Putnam Avenue in 1988, and Danny and Angie Chu ran it for decades. The new restaurant there is Lunar, owned by Bill Xia. The menu centers on Peking duck, dim sum and hot pot, with a full-service bar. Chefs Gong and Ye run the kitchen. It took longer than planned. In early July, the expected timing was a soft opening later that month. Lunar actually opened only a few days before the Greenwich Free Press visited in late September. Its website lists hours from 11 a.m. daily, closing at 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Both of the season's shortest gaps came in August, and in both cases the original operators reopened.
"We have missed serving our community on the Avenue, and our team cannot wait to welcome you back to your favorite booths."
That was Javier Sanchez, chef at Putnam Restaurant, 373 Greenwich Avenue. The diner closed in mid-August after the building inspection division of the Department of Public Works declared the building dangerous and unsafe. Once the problem was fixed, it reopened on Wednesday, September 2, at 7 a.m. The Nikas family has run Putnam for decades, and it is open 365 days a year, Thanksgiving and Christmas included. The menu still offers all-day breakfast, daily soups and Greek-influenced specials.
On Hamilton Avenue in Chickahominy, the closure came from an ownership change. Robyn and Michael Bordes opened Constantino's Pasta Bowls and Love You A Latte in 2024. On July 1 they sold both to Jihaad Alyusuf, who also owns Petite Bretagne in Rye and Mamaroneck. On August 19, the Greenwich Health Department posted a notice citing the business for operating without a required food service license, and both shops closed for about two weeks. The Bordeses then called off the sale and reopened both restaurants at 160 Hamilton Avenue on Tuesday, September 1. "We simply were not willing to risk losing the team we had worked so hard to build," Robyn Bordes told Patch. She also said she is no longer interested in selling. Constantino's of Greenwich, the couple's other restaurant, was sold separately in May and has since closed.
Of the season's openings, only one is a first for the town rather than a handover. Greenwich & Delancey, at 59 East Putnam Avenue in Cos Cob, is described as Greenwich's first kosher restaurant. Chef David Teyf runs it as an OU Glatt Kosher deli. The menu includes house-cured pastrami, carved at the table.
The same institutions are running their fall calendars as usual, and some have shifted dates or locations:
The next opening on the list won't happen until spring. Kneads Bakery Café has signed for a 2,000-square-foot café on Railroad Avenue and a small grab-and-go counter inside the Greenwich train station. Both are expected to open in late spring 2027.
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