New Restaurants in Dobbs Ferry, NY & November 2026 Events

At 1 Southfield Avenue, in the room that used to be Scaramella's, the fettuccine Alfredo comes without cream. Rosie Bella's Italian Kitchen tosses house-made pasta with butter, Parmigiano-Reggiano and pasta water, which is the traditional Roman method, according to the Rivertowns Dispatch. A few blocks away on Palisade Street, a coffee bar named for the moment you close your eyes over a good sip operates from inside another business. On Cedar Street, a shop sells bourbon and gin that contain no alcohol.

Each of these opened in Dobbs Ferry in summer 2026, and each one brought something that started somewhere else. The village calendar has done the same thing. The Dobbs Ferry Library's biggest event of the year, a spring fixture until now, lands on a Saturday in late November. The newcomers have had a season to settle in, so this is the first November they share with it.

A Yonkers Kitchen Settles Onto Southfield Avenue

Rosie Bella's opened July 20, 2026, after a full renovation that added an open kitchen and more bar seating, lohud reported. The owners, Johnnie and Rosie Greco, ran Louie & Johnnie's in Yonkers for three decades before coming here, according to lohud's photo gallery from opening week.

That background shows in the menu. The restaurant's online menu describes its pasta as fresh and made in-house. It lists antipasti, pizzas and entrées, with a carbonara and a Hot Honey pizza among them. The Journal News photographed the carbonara made with guanciale, black pepper, egg yolk and pecorino romano, along with arancini and personal pizzas from the open kitchen.

In other words, the corner of Southfield Avenue now runs on thirty years of Yonkers restaurant experience. The online menu carries no date, so dishes may change with the season. Before planning a holiday dinner around a specific plate, check the Rosie Bella's website.

Coffee That Lives Inside Someone Else's Room

Eyes Closed Coffee is set up differently from a typical café. Carla Sanders runs it as a residency inside HudCo, sharing the space at 145 Palisade Street, Suite 200, with the art-book shop Picture Book. In HudCo's profile of her, Sanders said the name comes from closing your eyes to savor something delicious.

The drink to order is the EC Egg Cream. The Journal News described it as a caffeinated take on the New York classic in its gallery of summer openings. Sanders makes both caffeinated and caffeine-free drinks.

Because Eyes Closed runs as a residency, it keeps its own schedule. The hours HudCo first published covered only the August launch weeks, so check before you walk over on a weekday morning. The most useful date to know is already posted. Picture Book's calendar shows Eyes Closed Coffee serving drinks and treats there on Saturday, November 7.

A Cedar Street First for the County

DrySpace Beverage opened July 17, 2026. Owners Matt and Molly Ferguson run what lohud's summer openings gallery called Westchester's first and only non-alcoholic bottle shop and tasting room. The shop is on Cedar Street.

The shelves carry non-alcoholic beer, wine and spirits, plus adaptogens, ready-to-drink mocktails and mixers. The shop also offers free tastings in the store, according to DrySpace. News 12 Westchester's coverage also mentioned alcohol-free bourbon and gin.

DrySpace fits the season well. Late November through December is the heaviest hosting stretch of the year, and a shop where you can taste a zero-proof gin before buying a bottle for a Thanksgiving table is new for the county. Hours were not posted with the shop's opening coverage, so call or check the website before a pre-holiday stop.

Saturday, November 7, in Three Stops

The three newcomers become one plan on the first Saturday in November. Two events overlap that morning, and Rosie Bella's covers the evening.

1. 10 a.m. to noon, Dobbs Ferry Library. The library holds an all-ages Diwali celebration with readings by local families, snacks, henna and a community poster everyone can add to.
2. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Picture Book inside HudCo, 145 Palisade Street. Picture Book is open as a stop on the RiverArts Studio Tour, with art books for all ages and drinks and treats from Eyes Closed Coffee. If you skipped the egg cream all summer, this is the easiest time to try it.
3. Evening, Southfield Avenue. End the day at Rosie Bella's. Local coverage singled out the Roman-style Alfredo and the carbonara with guanciale.

You could fit DrySpace in between the Palisade Street stop and dinner. That depends on its Saturday hours, which are best confirmed directly with the shop.

The studio tour stop adds a Dobbs Ferry piece to an event that runs through several river villages. Picture Book's part of it happens in a space that already holds a bookshop and a coffee residency. A single Saturday at that address shows the shared-space model these businesses use.

FerryCon Comes in the Fall for the First Time

Two weeks later, the library holds the event that shows this pattern most clearly. FerryCon is the Dobbs Ferry Library's free, all-ages flagship event in the style of Comic Con. Its listing now calls it a fall event held "formerly spring." This year's date is Saturday, November 21, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Since 2019 it has brought more than 300 participants to the library for an artists' alley, classes, panels and contests built around comics, graphic novels and superheroes.

Entry is free. This year the library asks for a suggested donation of $5 per family at the door as a fundraiser. The FerryCon 2026 listing sets the day's schedule as follows.

The raffle has gift baskets for kids, teens and adults, including a signed Marvel comic. Tickets cost $3 for one or $5 for two, and you can buy them during the week before the event. Proceeds go to the Friends of the Dobbs Ferry Library.

The 4 p.m. screening ends near dinnertime. Families heading to Rosie Bella's afterward will be at the same Saturday table that opened in July.

What the Calendar Looks Like Now

Before this year, a November Saturday in Dobbs Ferry looked different. FerryCon was a spring event. There was no Roman-style kitchen in the Scaramella's space, no egg cream on Palisade Street, and no zero-proof tasting counter on Cedar Street. In 2026, the library's biggest day and the village's three newest businesses all fall within the same four weeks.

The Diwali celebration and the studio tour stop are on November 7. FerryCon is on November 21, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

If you are thinking about how this newer side of Dobbs Ferry might fit into your own plans for the next few years, Lena O'Neill would be glad to talk it through over coffee, maybe an EC Egg Cream on Palisade Street. Schedule a free consultation, and she'll share what she is seeing as the village's newest places become part of its weekly routine.