gusi
Some traditions never disappear. They simply learn a new language
A Two-Storey Restaurant & Bar Where Eastern European Heritage Meets Mediterranean Influence
GUSI is an Eastern European restaurant with a Mediterranean soul, located at 432 Sixth Avenue in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village.
Founded by Boris Artemyev and Elena Melnikova, the restaurant is a deeply personal expression of two lives shaped by movement, memory, and the search for belonging.
Named after the Slavic word for "geese," GUSI draws on the mythology of migration: the instinct to travel, to adapt, and to return. It is a restaurant built around the idea that food, like memory, carries us home.
The menu celebrates refined Eastern European comfort cuisine reframed through a Mediterranean lens, supported by a collection of house-made infused spirits and a thoughtfully curated selection of natural wines.
Situated in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood long defined by its spirit of creative freedom and its welcome of wanderers, artists, and dreamers, GUSI feels like a natural extension of that legacy.