On paper it is one small step: a new company called Vendome Hospitality Group Roslyn LLC is preparing to open a restaurant at 1363 Old Northern Boulevard. But that address is one of the most watched restaurant spaces in Nassau County, and the name points somewhere interesting: the family behind Nino's Beach in Port Washington.

The corner that keeps starting over

If you have driven through Roslyn village in the last decade, you have watched 1363 Old Northern Boulevard change costumes. It was MP Taverna, chef Michael Psilakis's modern Greek tavern, for years. Then it became Roslyn Social, a sports-bar reinvention that opened in 2019. Brass Swan, a restaurant and lounge, took over in 2022. T Bar, the steak-and-New-American spot with siblings in Manhattan and Southampton, arrived in 2024, and it has since gone dark. As of this week the address sits fully empty, with no restaurant or bar operating there at all.

That churn is not really a mystery. It is a big space in a marquee village where rents match the zip code, and every operator who takes it inherits the expectations of the one before. Which is what makes the newest move worth reading closely: the group now reaching for the keys has already proven it can run a big room in Nassau County.

Follow the name

State records show Vendome Hospitality Group Roslyn LLC was formed in late April, registered directly to the Old Northern Boulevard address. The name matches Vendome Hospitality Group LLC, a company registered in 2020 at 35-01 Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, the longtime home of Nino's AQ, the Italian restaurant run by brothers Michael and Franco Vendome.

Long Islanders are more likely to know the brothers from the water. In May 2022 they opened Nino's Beach at the Safe Harbor marina on Orchard Beach Boulevard in Port Washington, a 9,500-square-foot waterfront Mediterranean restaurant with house-made pasta, fresh seafood and slips where guests dock their boats for dinner. The family also runs Nino's 46 in the Manhattan theater district. Nino's Beach quickly became one of the North Shore's genuine summer destinations, a dinner reservation people arrive at by water.

Neither the family nor the landlord has announced anything, and there is no word yet on what the Roslyn restaurant will be called or when it might open. Standing up a new restaurant company is an early step, not a ribbon-cutting, and projects like this can take months to reach an opening night. What it does establish is intent: a new entity, formed this spring, named for Roslyn, seated at the address, preparing a full restaurant with a bar.

Why this one might stick

Roslyn is not short on restaurants. It is short on rooms with a reason to exist, and the corner at 1363 Old Northern has been searching for one since the Psilakis era. An operator that built a destination on the Port Washington waterfront, five miles away, arrives with something the last three tenants did not have: a Nassau County following that already knows the name. The distance matters too. Nino's Beach is seasonal by nature, a summer restaurant on a marina. A year-round dining room in Roslyn village would give the family a winter anchor a short drive from the customers it already has.

None of that is a guarantee, and the space has humbled good operators before. But the pattern of the last decade at this corner has been outsiders taking a swing at Roslyn. This move reads like the opposite: a family that has already won on the North Shore, moving one harbor east. Keep an eye on the windows at Old Northern Boulevard. Paper on the glass usually comes next.