Here's a look at new New York eateries, hotels, conference areas, unique venues and other spaces to open for events this summer. 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.
The Grill, a restoration of the iconic Grill Room at the former Four Seasons Restaurant, is the first of three restaurants by Major Food Group slated to open in Midtown's Seagram Building. ​The new eatery features chop house-style dishes and seats 120 or holds 250 standing. The room is described as more fun than formal, but restaurant captains sport tuxedos.
Ian Schrager’s tech-forward Public Hotel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is slated to open in early June. Free Wi-Fi service is available throughout the entire 367-room property, which features more than 13,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor event space. Also on site are a Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant; a modular, multimedia venue that can serve a variety of functions; and an outdoor garden designed by Madison Cox.Â
Bringing one of the city’s most famous sushi dens to Lower Manhattan, Nobu Downtown arrived in April. For the bar and lounge, Rockwell Group’s design was influenced by the art of Japanese calligraphy. In the dining room, furniture is upholstered in patchwork fabric inspired by Peruvian folk traditions, with Japanese patterns. The restaurant can hold 262 and is available for full or partial buyouts.
Project Farmhouse, a new sustainability and education center near Union Square, opened in April and is available for private events. Featuring a design largely from recycled materials, the venue’s 3,500-square-foot ground level includes the Boffi Teaching Kitchen, which can be used for culinary-related teambuilding exercises. Other amenities include colored LED lights that can be customized for gatherings. Overall, the space holds 240 guests for receptions; for smaller gatherings, the main space holds 200 or seats 100 at rounds or theater style. There is also a conference room that seats 40.
Following their success with ABC Kitchen, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Paulette Cole in February opened AbcV, a 75-seat restaurant serving vegan and vegetarian dishes, earlier this year. Designed by ABC Carpet & Home creative director and C.E.O. Paulette Cole, along with Amy Ilias and ABC's senior creative team, the new eatery's interior decor is white and various shades of the sunset. The restaurant is available for buyouts; there is no private dining space.
A live music venue opened at Yotel in Midtown West in March. The Green Room 42 hosts performers while serving a menu of creative takes on American classics. The intimate room features purple walls decked out by chef Gabriel Israel—a graffiti and tattoo artist—as well as leather banquettes, theatrical drapes, an elevated 21-foot stage, a grand piano, and a high-tech sound system. Three private rooms can accommodate several configurations, ranging from 48 for a seated dinner to 240 for a cocktail reception.
Treadwell Park—the craft beer destination—opened its second New York location in Battery Park earlier in May. The bar offers 70 bottle- and draught-beer options from across the globe, and the venue has a seasonal outdoor beer garden, interior floor-to-ceiling windows, massive skylights, and a theater-like lounge. The space, which can hold 210 guests in a mix of seated and standing configurations, was designed by Corbin Plays and Peter Virostko.
Following a renovation, the coworking space WeWork Bryant Park reopened its private event space and bar in May. Upgrades include a reconfigured space and fresh paint. Built as a Republican club in 1902, the building features a coffered ceiling, massive Doric columns, a spiral staircase, and 15-foot windows overlooking the park that create a grand venue that can hold 135 for cocktails or seat 100 auditorium-style or 90 at rounds.
Steps away from the Plaza Hotel, Bobby Van’s Steakhouse opened its sixth location, on Central Park South in late March. Designed by Jeffrey Beers international, the newest outpost features lighter American and Italian fare and space for 350 standing or as many as 300 seated. Buyouts are available.
Last month, celebrity chef Scott Conant opened Fusco, his first solo New York eatery in nearly a decade. The Gramercy-area spot is meant to evoke old-world hospitality and a feeling of being in one’s own home. Designed by Brian Leister, the space features an intimate dining room that seats as many as 46 guests, or can hold 80 for a cocktail reception. Lunch buyouts are available, and such events can be arranged for dinner beginning in the fall.
