On paper it is one line in a state database: on August 27, Vendome Hospitality Group Roslyn LLC applied for a restaurant liquor license at 1363 Old Northern Boulevard. But that address is one of the most watched restaurant spaces in Nassau County, and the name on the filing 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 state lists no active liquor license at the address at all, which is the surest sign a restaurant corner is empty.

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 filing worth reading closely: the group now reaching for the keys has already proven it can run a big room in Nassau County.

Follow the paperwork

Vendome Hospitality Group Roslyn LLC was formed with the state 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 the filing does not say what the Roslyn restaurant will be called or when it might open. A liquor license application is an early step, not a ribbon-cutting, and applications can take months to work through the State Liquor Authority. What the paperwork does establish is intent: a new entity, formed this spring, named for Roslyn, seated at the address, asking Albany for a full restaurant license.

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 filing 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.