Humm restaurant opens today in the West Village

The Humm restaurant opens today at 435 Hudson Street in Manhattan's West Village, Daniel Humm's first solo project in the neighborhood after more than two decades running Eleven Madison Park.

The Swiss-born chef has taken over the former EN Japanese Brasserie space on Hudson Street. The Humm restaurant's address first surfaced earlier this month, and today's opening keeps it on schedule.

Humm breaks from Eleven Madison Park's format in one clear way: no tasting menu. The new room runs entirely à la carte, built around a wood-fired hearth, with plates meant to be shared alongside individual dishes rather than a fixed multi-course sequence. Early menu previews list endive salad, oysters and roast chicken, a sharp contrast with Eleven Madison Park's $385 tasting menu across town.

Two decades of tasting menus, and Humm's next move is a chicken you can order twice.

Inside the Humm restaurant menu

The room is a collaboration between French architect and designer Pierre Yovanovitch and Italian painter Francesco Clemente, the same pairing behind Clemente Bar, the cocktail lounge Humm added to Eleven Madison Park. The wine list is run by Michael Duffy, previously wine director at Rezdôra Osteria Emiliana and at Massara.

Humm keeps his existing posts. He remains chef and owner of both Eleven Madison Park and Clemente Bar, so Humm opens as a third property rather than a departure from the first two.

A different chapter after Eleven Madison Park

The contrast lands at a specific moment for Humm's flagship. Eleven Madison Park went fully plant-based in 2021, then reintroduced meat and fish, including its honey-lavender-glazed duck, on October 14, 2025. "Change is fundamental to who we are and how we grow," Humm said at the time. "As I approach my 20th anniversary at EMP, I've decided it's time for change again."

Humm now runs one restaurant built around a tasting menu that mixes plant and animal dishes, and another, across town, built for repeat, à la carte dinners with meat on the menu from day one. The Infatuation had not eaten at Humm as of early September and lists it at the top price tier.

Reservations for the Humm restaurant are open through Humm's own site, which now lists it as open rather than "coming soon." Whether the name alone fills a neighbourhood dining room without a tasting menu attached to it is the first real test of Humm's next chapter.