OPEN NOW ALMOND FLOWER BISTRO -- Christopher Cheung , the chef and an owner of Little Bistro in Cobble Hill , Brooklyn , once owned a Chinese restaurant , but the food in his new place in Chinatown is mostly contemporary American , like seafood chowder and crab and corn cakes : 96 Bowery -LRB- Grand Street -RRB- , ( 212 ) 966-7162 .