A Michelin-Starred Taiwanese Dim Sum Restaurant is Coming to Downtown Brooklyn

By Michael Gonik

With so much culinary action in and around the borough, it’s kinda stunning how little overlap there is in the “dim sum” and “Michelin-starred” categories. But Din Tai Fung, a Taiwanese dim sum chain known for their decadent soup dumplings and mile-long menu, is reportedly set to change all of that not (too) long from now, as it announces its first Kings County location will be in Downtown Brooklyn.

Din Tai Fung’s Brooklyn imprint will stretch across 20,000 square feet (25% smaller than its Midtown counterpart) on the ground floor of 567 Fulton Street, where developers Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management have recently completed a new 52-story luxury residential building called “The Brook,” just off the corner of Flatbush Avenue, according to Crain’s. A debut this big will take a bit of time to actually manifest, though—it’s currently eyeing a (gasp) 2027 opening.

When it does eventually crack its gates, Din Tai Fung will join the precious few dim sum spots of its scale in the borough, which you can count on just one hand (editor’s picks here include a holy trinity of essential “palace” experiences—Fortune in Bath Beach, Golden in Bensonhurst, and New Pacific in Sunset Park). It will also add to the borough’s Michelin-acknowledged ranks, currently sitting at 84 featured restaurants—seven of which earned one or more stars, at the time of publishing—but the number could be well north of that by the time it actually opens, as the guide recently recommended three new restaurants in Brooklyn (Rose Marie in Williamsburg, Olmo in Bed-Stuy, and Sal Tang‘s in Carroll Gardens).

Until then, we highly recommend taking the time to fully explore all three of the borough’s Chinatowns (on 8th Avenue in Sunset Park, on Avenue U in Sheepshead Bay, and along 86th Street, Bay Parkway, and 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst), for sleepers of all sorts.