When the kitchen appliances get as much attention as the menu, you know you’ve met the newest love child of corporate-product-placement shack-ups. Enter Rheon Café, the Soho food outpost of a Japanese company that manufactures high-tech baking gadgetry like the Multi Co-Extruder—no, it’s not Han Solo’s toothbrush, but a cookie-making machine. The menu, which was crafted by former Morimoto sous chef Hisanobu Osaka, features an array of Asian-tinged pastries, soups and sandwiches, such as prosciutto with mozzarella, tomato, arugula and sesame-mayo sauce; and roasted duck with romaine lettuce and miso sauce. Sandwiches are available half (about $5) or whole (about $8). The space is tiny—four tables, eight chairs—but an outdoor patio should ease the croissant congestion. No word yet on whether there’s a Millennium Falcon landing pad out there.

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