Here's a look at new New York eateries, drinking spots, hotels, conference areas, private rooms, and other spaces to open for events this spring. The new and renovated New York venues are available for corporate parties, weddings, fund-raisers, outdoor functions, business dinners, teambuilding activities, conferences, meetings, and more.
Chef Charlie Palmer has moved his Charlie Palmer Steak New York from midtown to the garment district. Now located at the Archer Hotel, the concept takes over the former David Burke Fabrick space with new design from Barbara Gisel of BGD LTD. It features bold blue-and-black textiles and original art from the collection of curator Liz Sterling. In addition to steak house fare such as dry-aged steaks and Kobe beef from Japan, the menu includes house-made pastas and charcuterie, as well as separate menus for breakfast, lunch, and brunch. For buyouts, it seats 75 or holds 150 for receptions. A private dining room seats 30 or holds 60 for receptions. The Charlie Palmer Group along with LodgeWorks Partners will manage all of the hotel’s food and beverage programs, including event catering, in-room dining, and Spyglass Rooftop Bar.
The eco-friendly luxury 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, located at Pier 1 on Brooklyn Bridge Park, is slated to open in February. The 194-room hotel has 20,000 square feet of event space, including a 50-seat screening room and a seasonal 4,000-square-foot rooftop area overlooking the Manhattan skyline with a pool, a bar, and fire pits.
In January, the Peninsula New York hotel announced a new signature suite, the Fifth Avenue Suite, named for its views of Fifth Avenue including the Museum of Modern Art’s Sculpture Garden. The 17th-floor suite covers 2,500 square feet and has a sophisticated residential feel thanks to design from Bill Rooney Studio. The suite has a 10-seat dining room and spacious living room that can be used for entertaining, as well as a kitchen with Gaggenau appliances.
A new outpost of popular Manhattan food hall Gotham Market has opened in downtown Brooklyn. Gotham Market at the Ashland, which debuted in January, features eight different dining or drinking options spread throughout the 16,000-square-foot market including an outpost of the tapas concept Boqueria, the Southern-infused barbecue and bourbon spot Mason Jar, and the Italian concept Apizza Regionale. Designed by Jeffrey Beers International, the space features industrial-style elements such as exposed brick, concrete floors, and hand-blown glass globes from artists at the nearby UrbanGlass. The market offers no private event space, but it is available for buyouts for reception-style events of 350 people.
The Greek restaurant Nerai opened a private event space, Cava Nerai, in late January. The space, a stone wine cellar, includes the Bar Room, which seats 35 at separate tables or 20 people at one large table, as well as a wood-paneled Wine Library for 10 seated guests. The Midtown eatery’s other space for private events is the Garden Room, which seats 75 guests.
Joining the collection of venues from JPO Concepts is City Parlor. Located in Midtown, the space features hardwood floors and exposed brick walls, along with an unusual amenity: a vintage-style telephone booth. The space also has built-in bar structures and a private prep kitchen. Overall the venue accommodates 100 standing guests, 55 theater-style, 40 for seated dinners, 18 in a classroom set-up, or 10 in a boardroom setting. In-house audiovisual equipment includes a projector and drop-down screen, two 50-inch televisions, a Sonos sound system, and track lighting with dimmers. The space also has Wi-Fi access.
The Artezen Hotel, a modern boutique hotel across the street from Fulton Street Transit Center downtown, is slated to open in the first quarter of 2017. The 21-story hotel will have 89 guestrooms, a fitness and yoga studio, a restaurant, and the Studio—a two-story glass-encased rooftop lounge that will offer cocktails and views of the city.
Shay & Ivy, an American restaurant in the Flatiron district, opened in November from restaurateurs Evan Rosenberg and Daniel Rieger. The 2,400-square-foot eatery offers full buyouts for about 130 seated guests or 250 for receptions. It also offers private dining in its ivy-clad Garden Room, which seats 50 or holds 65 for receptions, as well as in its patio, open year-round, which seats 36 or holds 50 for cocktails. Audiovisual amenities include large-screen televisions and a music dock compatible with Apple devices. There is also room for a DJ or live music.
The contemporary Mexican restaurant the Black Ant added two new spaces for events—a private dining room and a patio—in October. The intimate East Village eatery serves fare such as shrimp-crusted halibut, pressed roasted suckling pig, and crispy duck dumplings with an Oaxacan mole negro. The beverage menu includes standards like margaritas along with specialty cocktails.
Located in the West Village, Thai restaurant Pinto Garden debuted in December. A sister restaurant to chef Teerawong Nanthavatsiri’s Pinto in Brooklyn Heights, the new location’s name points to one of its signature spaces: a heated and enclosed back garden room that can be used for private events. It seats 30 or holds 50 guests for cocktails. Dishes are served family style and include seasonal selections such as duck confit flat bread, Kau-Kling Berkshire baby ribs, and Num Ya Pu Pasta, which features jumbo lump crab.
