How do I find restaurants with new liquor licenses in NYC?
Short answer
The New York State Liquor Authority publishes every approved on-premises license through data.ny.gov, and Buildout Feed reformats that data into a daily digest of newly licensed NYC restaurants with matching DOB and DOH signals.
The fastest way to find restaurants with new liquor licenses in NYC is to watch the New York State Liquor Authority public license dataset on data.ny.gov, which lists every approved on-premises license by DBA, borough, and issue date.
The raw dataset covers all of New York State and includes about 60,000 active licenses. Filtering it to newly approved NYC restaurants means joining license data against NYC Department of Buildings and Department of Health records to confirm the venue actually exists and is opening soon rather than a legacy license transfer.
Buildout Feed does that join automatically. Every morning at 7:00 AM ET, the digest surfaces newly licensed NYC restaurants alongside the DOB filings, permits, and DOH inspections that indicate whether the venue is genuinely new, a renovation, or a change of ownership.
The free public directory of openings on this site covers about 374 verified pre-opening NYC restaurants. The paid product adds contact detail, applicant names, license class, sector filters, and a CRM for tracking outreach.