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New restaurant openings in NY, NJ and CT, from the first filing

Restaurants, bars, cafés and bakeries from the first public record that names them, about 3 in 10 before they open. One record per place: its name, street address and ZIP, the stage it has reached and the date of each step, up to the first health inspection. About 150 new places a week, by API, for teams that sell POS, food and drink, equipment, linen, staffing or insurance to new restaurants.

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New restaurantExample
Marigold Taqueria
Restaurant · Mexican · Astoria, Queens 11103
  1. Liquor license application
    Beer and wine, on premises
    Jun 3
  2. Fit-out permit at the address
    Kitchen hood · $48,000
    Aug 21
  3. Health permit issued
    Permit active
    Sep 18
  4. Opening soon
    First inspection not yet done
Here before: a café, last inspected in February
~150
new places a week
99%
with a street address and ZIP
6
kinds of public record, matched by place
The data

One record per place, filled in as it gets closer to opening.

We tie together the public records that name the same business at the same address. When a new filing lands, the place you already have gets it, and its stage moves forward.

Name
The trade name, the liquor license class when there is one, and the cuisine in New York City.
Address
Street address, town, ZIP and map coordinates.
Stage
How far it has got: license applied for, health permit issued, first inspection done. The date of each step, the earliest date any record shows, and whether it is open yet when a record says.
Records behind it
Liquor license applications and licenses, health permits, food licenses, company registrations and building permits, each with its own dates and status.
Build-out permits
Food-service building permits at the address, such as the fit-out, kitchen hood or sign, with the job value and contractor when the town records them.
What was there before
In New York City, the food businesses at the address before it, and when each was last inspected.
Examples

A week of new places, and the permits behind them.

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New this week
Example
Restaurant
Liquor license application filed
Nightjar · Bar · Bushwick, Brooklyn 11237
Mon
Restaurant
Health permit issued, not yet inspected
Little Fig · Café · Hoboken, NJ 07030
Tue
Restaurant
Food license, preliminary approval
Saltbox Bakery · Bakery · New Haven, CT 06511
Wed
Building
Fit-out permit names the place
Olive & Ember · Restaurant · White Plains, NY 10601
Thu
Restaurant
First health inspection done
Harbor Noodle · Restaurant · Stamford, CT 06901
Fri
Build-out permitExample
Interior fit-out for a 60-seat restaurant, new kitchen hood and grease duct
White Plains, NY 10601
Linked to
Olive & Ember, new restaurant
Issued
Oct 9
Valuation
$185,000
Contractor
Fernwood Interiors
Matched by
Same street address
How it’s used

How restaurant suppliers use it.

01

A weekly list for each rep

Pull the new and changed places every Monday and route them by ZIP. The stage tells each rep how close a place is to opening.

02

Get there before opening day

Work the places at an early stage first: a liquor license application still pending, a health permit applied for, a fit-out permit at the address.

03

Size territories

Count new places by county, town and ZIP, and by cuisine in New York City, to set territories and targets.

04

Know the space

In New York City, see what was at the address before, so a rep knows whether the place is taking over an old kitchen or moving into a space that had no food business.

Delivery

Pull what’s new, not the whole file.

Every dataset is a feed with a cursor, delivered by API. Run it hourly, daily or weekly, and never re-download yesterday’s records.

01
Only what's new — Your first pull returns the backlog. After that, each pull returns only what's new since the last one: new permits, changes to the permits you already have, and any restaurant that's new or has changed.
02
Search when you need it — Look up permits by county, town, trade, property type, status, date or keyword, sorted by date or valuation.
03
One key for your team — JSON over HTTPS, up to 1,000 records a call, limited to the areas you license.
Read the API docs →
GET /v1/restaurants?sinceSeq=48210
x-api-key: ••••••••••••

{
  "data": [
    {
      "venueId": "v_3f9c2a7e01b44d58c6a1",
      "name": "Golden Wok Kitchen",
      "cuisine": "Chinese",
      "city": "Flushing",
      "zip": "11354",
      "stage": "health_permit_issued",
      "stageDate": "2026-08-09",
      "filings": [ … ],
      "permits": [ … ]
    }
  ],
  "nextSeq": "48733",
  "hasMore": false
}
Coverage

The tri-state, county by county.

Building and home permits in 46 counties: every one in New Jersey and Connecticut, sixteen in New York, and Philadelphia. New restaurants across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, deepest in New York City and the counties around it.

Permits on file per county. Each links to its latest permits.

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Questions

Frequently asked

When the first public record names it. About 3 in 10 places that appeared since June first showed up through a liquor license application, a company registration or a fit-out permit, filed while the place was still being set up; most of the rest first showed up with a health permit or a liquor license, around the time they open. The stage on each record tells you which, and the record fills in as new filings land.

Restaurants, bars, cafés and bakeries across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Coverage is deepest in New York City and the counties around it, and thinner in New Jersey and Connecticut.

The place's name, its street address, ZIP and map coordinates, the stage it has reached with the date of each step, and every public record behind it with its own dates. Food-service building permits at the address come with their job value and contractor when the town records them. In New York City, a record also lists the food businesses that were at the address before.

Pull the feed with a cursor. The first pull returns every place on file; after that, each pull returns only the places that are new or have changed, whole each time, so a weekly pull gives you the week's new places and stage changes.

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