The dumplings that conquered Times Square are coming to downtown Brooklyn.
Din Tai Fung, the giant Taiwanese soup dumpling restaurant where it can take weeks to get a reservation, signed a lease for a 20,000-square-foot jumbo at The Brook, Realty Check has learned. The 52-story rental apartment tower, which just started receiving tenants, is a project of the Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management.
Witkoff Group was founded by Steven Witkoff, President Trump’s special Mideast envoy who’s credited with a large role in nailing down the peace agreement between Israel and Hamas that was announced last week.
Steven’s son Alex Witkoff runs the real estate company on a day-to-day-basis.
The Brook is the newest entry – and one of the largest and most impressive – on the thriving downtown Brooklyn residential scene, where rezoning sparked the creation of tens of thousands of new apartments over the past 15 years.
Rising at the convergence of Fulton Street and DeKalb Avenue, the nearly half-billion dollar project, designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, will have 590 rental units and 30,000 square feet of tenants’ amenities.
Din Tai Fung at Broadway and West 51st Street was an instant sensation when it opened in 2024 as the company’s first Big Apple location. The 450-seat venue brought life back to the long vacant space that was once Mars 2112. Din Tai Fung has branches in several states, the UK, China, other East Asian countries and more.
The Post reported in August 2024 that Din Tai Fung’s soup dumplings were not only delicious, but “pleasingly tactile … thanks to an 18-step hand-folding process that pleats the skin of each dumpling perfectly and achieves a so-called ‘golden ratio’ with the savory fillings.”
Restaurant site The Infatuation, noting that the initial mania over the Broadway outpost subsided somewhat, posted this month, “You can easily get a decent reservation as long as you plan a few weeks in advance.”
Din Tai Fung is expected to open at The Brook in early 2027.
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