
After years of running a beloved Vietnamese pop-up around the country, Anthony Ha and Sadie Mae Burns finally debuted a brick-and-mortar Manhattan restaurant in December. Ha’s Snack Bar offers the husband/wife team’s French-tinged bites and natural wine in a compact space filled with DIY finishes and repurposed furniture. “People keep telling us how cozy and homey it feels in here,” says Sadie. “That why we’re so glad that we took on the design element ourselves. It really does feel like our two hands built it.”
The one feature the couple didn’t select themselves was the existing hexagonal terracotta tile floors, which provided a warm base for them to layer with family heirlooms, artwork by friends, and objects they’d amassed over time. “We were just collecting pieces and items and things that we fell in love with and then figuring out how to use them, essentially,” Sadie says. “It was pretty instinctual.” Join us for a look around.
Photography by Lucia Bell-Epstein.