The first thing Antoni Porowski — the food and wine expert on “Queer Eye,” this year’s hit reboot of the makeover TV show — wants everyone to know about his new West Village restaurant is that it will not center on avocado.

The fruit became a meme associated with Mr. Porowski after two episodes of the inaugural season showed him teaching the program’s recruits how to make vastly simplified avocado dishes. “That scarred me a little,” he said. “The first draft of the menu didn’t have a single avocado anywhere.”

He has since softened his stance. There may be some avocado at Village Den, the fast-casual cafe he plans to open next month in the beloved former diner of the same name. The overall theme will be comfort food with a nutritious spin: cabbage rolls stuffed with turkey and cauliflower rice (a nod to his Polish heritage), and TV-dinner-inspired trays, like macadamia-crusted fish sticks with maple parsnip mash, that fit into the low-carb ketosis diet. (Mr. Porowski is an occasional adherent.)