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Three nights a week, Next Kitchen + Bar takes the choosing out of dinner. Tuesday is all-you-can-eat tacos — crisped pork belly, carne asada, crispy fish, fried artichoke, and grilled avocado, sent out with rice and beans for twenty-eight dollars. Thursday turns into an all-you-can-eat tapas run of pretzel bites, satays, arancini, shrimp ceviche, and chili-ginger cauliflower, thirty-two dollars an adult and seventeen a child. Sunday opens for a brunch built the same way — tapas-style across avocado toast, bennies, huevos rancheros, and brunch tacos rather than one plate to a person. The rest of the week this Fonthill Village kitchen and bar works à la carte, but the recurring programs are the clearest read on what it is after: a table that grazes and shares, not one that orders once and waits.
The standing menu ranges wider than the bar-snack label suggests. The Dip anchors the shareable end, a loaded mix of lobster, shrimp, and cheeses scooped up with crisp wontons, chips, and pita, while the Next Charcuterie lays out cured meats with marinated vegetables, focaccia, and seasonal spreads. Korean-battered cauliflower arrives in a chili-ginger sauce under toasted sesame. From there the kitchen splits into lanes: hand-stretched pizzas that run from a clean Margherita to the Notorious P.I.G., piled with cup-and-char pepperoni, hot Italian sausage, and spicy soppressata; handhelds built as a direct order, from the Bacon Smash Burger under sriracha-maple aioli to the Dirty Bird, a spicy crispy-chicken sandwich with chipotle aioli, to a Triple Threat BLT that runs peameal bacon, crispy pancetta, and candied bacon together; and a Goddess Bowl of sticky rice, charred cauliflower, honey-roasted beets, edamame, and avocado for anyone who wants something lighter.
What ties it together is a kitchen that treats comfort food as a place to have fun. Korean chili heat sits a few lines from a truffle-cream mushroom gnocchi; a beet-and-arugula salad over stracciatella and crushed pistachios shares the page with a smash burger and a loaded pork pizza. The crowd reads the same way: regulars reach for words like quirky, lounge-chic, and lively, the kind of social energy that suits a long table better than a quiet two-top, and the welcome runs family-friendly enough to seat a few generations at once. This is food after more personality than the safe pub standard, without tipping into fuss.
Next opened in 2020 along the Highway 20 corridor in Pelham, in the cluster of storefronts that makes up Fonthill Village. The all-you-can-eat structure is the practical core of how it gets used: Tuesday tacos and Thursday tapas hand a midweek group both a reason to show up and a clean way to split the bill, while the Sunday brunch run rewards a table that wants several rounds at an unhurried pace. None of it asks for much commitment — reservations, takeout, and delivery all operate alongside the dining room, which keeps Next workable whether the plan is a quick weeknight handful of plates or a weekend that stretches long.
Underneath the rotating specials, the throughline is appetite rather than restraint. The instinct that makes a Tuesday bottomless is the same one that loads a pizza with three cured pork cuts, scoops a seafood dip with wontons, and drops chili-ginger heat beside truffle cream. The same logic carries the à la carte order — start with The Dip while it is hot, let the chili-ginger cauliflower cut the richer plates, split the Notorious P.I.G. a few ways. Some nights the calendar decides; most nights, the meal ends with whoever still has appetite for one more plate.
The menu gives groups multiple starting points: Korean Fried Cauliflower, The Dip, sliders, nachos, pizza, bowls, burgers, and salads.
Official Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday all-you-can-eat programs create clear timing hooks for diners planning around value and variety.
Loaded pizza, smash burgers, short-rib dip, and cauliflower with gochujang lean into comfort food with a more expressive bar-menu edge.
This is Restaurantica’s own read — synthesized from publicly available sources across diner signal and editorial research, last updated June 2026. It’s our interpretation of the evidence, not a crowd average — and placement is never for sale.
Next works best as a flexible night-out pick: starters, burgers, pizza, tacos, tapas, and brunch tapas all point toward a meal built for sharing, grazing, and changing pace across the evening.
The order can scale up without becoming complicated: The Dip, Tapas Thursday, Taco Tuesday, sliders, nachos, and pizza give groups multiple shared lanes before anyone needs to settle on a single entree.
The menu has enough personality for diners who want more than safe pub standards, from gochujang cauliflower and mushroom gnocchi to a loaded pork pizza with chili crunch and truffle aioli.
Sunday brunch has a source-backed tapas identity, which makes it more useful for a social meal than a standard one-plate brunch stop. The best read is variety, pacing, and repeat rounds.
Taco Tuesday gives Next a clear weekly street-food lane without forcing tacos into the everyday menu identity. It is a practical timing hook for diners who want a casual, high-variety visit.
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