One of our best new restaurants of 2025, Pitt’s, has sadly closed for good.
The Southern spot in Red Hook, which earned the top honor for its whimsical take on food from the Carolinas and a stunning pancake soufflé, had been on a winter hiatus since the beginning of the new year but owner Jeremy Salamon took to Instagram to announce the official closure today.
According to the post, Salamon intended to fully bring Pitt’s back in the spring, but the slow lead-up of fall and winter seasons in conjunction with splitting his time between two restaurants, Pitt’s and Crown Heights’ Agi’s Counter, proved to be difficult.
“When we closed temporarily, the full intention was to reopen in the spring. At the time, it felt like the responsible pause,” Salamon wrote on the social media platform. “At the same time, I was trying to divide myself between two restaurants, flying two planes while fixing them midair, and that wasn’t fair to the businesses, the teams, or to myself.”
Per Eater, Salamon also pointed to the restaurant’s location, far-out in Red Hook, as a reason behind slow business.
“I love Red Hook — it’s such a great, strong community,” he said to the outlet. “But it’s very hard to get to, unless you have a really big name like Red Hook Tavern, your draw is limited.”
This isn’t the first time that Salamon has been candid about the realities of operating a restaurant. In October of last year, the chef made a call for support at Agi’s Counter, also struggling at the time.
“There is this whole stigma around restaurants or businesses… that it’s not cool, or sexy to talk about your struggles. And every restaurant is dealing and fighting their own battles in one way or another,” Salamon said then.
As for Pitt’s, Salamon considered restructuring the restaurant—changing the concept and potentially introducing another Agi’s Counter to the space. But after running the numbers, he ultimately made the decision to close and refocus energy toward strengthening his other culinary enterprise.
Salamon ended his closure announcement with a hopeful note, writing: “…maybe one day, when the time and place are just right, a soufflé will rise again.” We’ll be the first in line if that happens.
