The restaurant that saved Midtown dining from the pandemic just celebrated its fifth anniversary — and chef/owner Daniel Boulud can take credit for more than Le Pavillon’s widely praised, Michelin-star menu and spectacular setting. When New York City dining rooms were still limited to less than half indoor capacity in the uncertain spring of 2021, … Read more
A high-profile French chef will soon bring his first New York restaurant to Park Avenue, accelerating the boom in high-end restaurants setting up shop in premier office towers. Michelin-honored Cyril Lignac signed with Rudin for his first Bar des Pres in New York at 345 Park Ave. at East 52nd Street. The French-East Asian eatery … Read more
Restaurant owners hate 30% commissions that delivery services like DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats charge them for many orders. But now, one very popular New York City spot is fighting back. Morgan’s Brooklyn Barbecue, widely regarded as one of the city’s best places for Texas-style, dry-rub grilling, encourages its customers to put in orders through … Read more
The dumplings that conquered Times Square are coming to downtown Brooklyn. Din Tai Fung, the giant Taiwanese soup dumpling restaurant where it can take weeks to get a reservation, signed a lease for a 20,000-square-foot jumbo at The Brook, Realty Check has learned. The 51-story rental apartment tower, which just started receiving tenants, is a … Read more
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel’s September reopening, five years later than first planned, will be well worth the long wait. The magnificently restored, reborn Waldorf-Astoria brings back the Big Apple’s “grand hotel” style, with glorious public spaces open to everyone and worthy of the inn’s iconic legacy. New York City’s great hotel lobbies fell one by one … Read more
Fast-casual food spots are fast conquering Midtown to fill long-empty storefronts — buoyed by more office workers returning to their desks five days a week. The boom includes not only familiar names such as Pret a Manger and Sweetgreen, but also brands new to New York. “Coming soon” signs just went up in the windows … Read more
The increasingly toxic struggle to control the popular Bryant Park Grill is leaving a bitter taste for hungry visitors to the iconic Midtown oasis. The nonprofit Bryant Park Corporation (BPC), which manages the park, is booting longtime Grill operator Ark Restaurants in favor of world-famed chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. But Ark owner Michael Weinstein says he … Read more
The windows of the former Lord & Taylor department store will soon be lit up for the first time since it closed in 2019 — but shoppers and strollers will see not fashion, but food. A hospitality company little-known in New York is launching a giant, 35,000 square-foot edibles emporium at Amazon-owned 425 Fifth Ave. … Read more
Hollywood star Bradley Cooper’s wildly popular cheesesteak takeout spot on the Lower East Side has a new landlord, The Post has learned. Alchemy Ventures, a real estate company that owns more than $400 million in mostly small properties in New York and Kansas City, gobbled up the five-story apartment building at 151 Avenue A for $10.75 … Read more
The year’s biggest restaurant story — at least by square feet — hid in plain sight for six months. The massive new Grand Brasserie will open next week in Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall, replacing City Winery. The huge construction project unfolded behind a curtain for months without an inch of media coverage — even though … Read more
The shocking, premature death over the weekend of Michelin-starred chef James Kent at age 45 cast a pall over Downtown – and the Wall Street area especially. Although Kent had other projects in the works, his Saga Hospitality Group is most closely associated with FiDi. It was announced just last week that the group would … Read more
High-end sushi, Korean-inspired steak and American favorites will be on the menu at three new restaurants slated to open at the former Sony building in Manhattan, The Post has learned. The distinct dining venues at 550 Madison Avenue — the landmarked tower that’s home to Hermes, Chubb and Corsair Capital — were revealed for the first time … Read more
It’s taken 22 years since 9/11, but the World Trade Center is finally getting a real, street-level, sit-down restaurant. Popular Brazilian-style steakhouse Fogo de Chao signed a lease for 5,000 square feet on the ground floor of Three World Trade Center. Fogo de Chao already operates thriving locations in Midtown and Queens. It specializes in churrasco-style tableside … Read more
They’re breaking out the Dom Perignon at 3 E. 52nd Street. La Grenouille, the romantic, last surviving outpost of the city’s old-school French-cuisine era, reopened on Friday following a four-and-a-half months shutdown due to a gas leak. The Post reported back on Sept. 27 that the famous frog was shuttered in June by Con Ed … Read more
High-profile habitues of fabled Midtown French restaurant La Grenouille are chasing frogs’ legs and foie gras elsewhere due to a mysterious, near-three-months shutdown. Owner Philippe Masson shuttered the place when it failed a June 27 pressure test on gas pipes after new meters were installed. The fabulous frog was supposed to reopen on Sept. 7 … Read more
Upper East Side food lovers are ecstatic that Daniel Boulud just signed a lease to launch a new restaurant at 100 E. 63rd St. — which the chef told Realty Check will be a revival of much-loved Cafe Boulud. Boulud’s Dinex Group and an unidentified French partner signed the deal for about 5,000 square feet … Read more