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Andrew Carmellini, Luke Ostrom and Josh Pickard Run NoHo’s 23 Venues

NoHo Hospitality’s co-founders on their 2026 openings, the Suprême’s global copycats and the Locanda Verde deal they almost walked away from.

Andrew Carmellini, Luke Ostrom and Josh Pickard run NoHo Hospitality, a 23-venue group across New York and Detroit that the partners say serves roughly 35,000 covers a week. In Detroit, where NoHo operates four venues at the Shinola Hotel, Ostrom and Pickard opened Saksey’s, a cocktail lounge, with Dan Gilbert’s family last November. In September, the three partners teamed with Authentic Hospitality on Ray’s Detroit, the two groups’ first collaboration, and opened The Astor and a second Bar Torino inside The Public Theater in New York.

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The line at Lafayette’s bakery can run half an hour, and its Suprême—a circular, cream-filled croissant introduced in April 2022—has been copied by bakeries from Singapore to London. Carmellini once found one on vacation in Costa Rica sold as a “Lafayette donut.” Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi and David Chang worked under Carmellini at Café Boulud before building Major Food Group and Momofuku.

Carmellini, Ostrom and Pickard are 2026 Observer Nightlife & Dining Power List honorees. They spoke with Observer about the restaurant they nearly walked away from during the financial crisis and what Detroit demands that New York doesn’t.

The Public relationship goes back to 1998, when Pickard helped launch Joe’s Pub. What changes when you’re feeding an audience at the Public Theater?

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