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Fouquet’s New York is open for hotel guests
Alas, I’ll never make it as a paparazzo. Victoria Beckham came striding out of Fouquet’s New York — the brand new hotel at 456 Greenwich from the French company Hotel Barrière — and instead of grabbing my phone, I stood there slack-jawed at the sight of someone wearing rhinestone encrusted transparent boots at 1:30 in the afternoon on a Wednesday. In a flash of sparkle, she and her entourage climbed into the waiting Escalade before my instincts kicked in.
But I did check out the hotel lobby! (Of course it’s opulent. Rates are around $1000 a night.) The staff told me the restaurants are not yet open — in fact the doors on Desbrosses were not open — since the liquor licenses are still pending, which seems hard to believe since they were before CB1 first a year ago. UPDATE! The SLA told me the licenses were approved on 10/15/2022 and should be issued this week.
But the website says the Brasserie Fouquet’s is open from 7a to 10:30a, then noon till 10:30p (with no liquor available). The Par Ici Café will open in late October.
The lobby entrance is on Greenwich; the restaurants will have a public entrance on Desbrosses, which has repaired cobblestone streets.
More TK when I can get a tour.
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Very well done construction/design; looking forward to trying out the new bar & restaurant.
Hopefully the developer and/or the city will plant some shade trees in the (currently empty) tree boxes along Greenwich and Desbrosses. The restored cobble looks lovely; the street will look even better w some greenery :).
I’ve already 311ed those tree pits. DPR deemed them suitable for planting, but their process can take a couple of years. I’m hoping the developer will do it and is just waiting for spring, when it’s a better time to plant.
1. There is a fall planting season for NYC street trees, 10/1-12/31.
2. The average wait time for trees planted in 2019 was 909 days, the longest ever.
3. “Stumped New Yorkers Wait Years to Get Trees Planted — But You Can Pay $1,800 to Cut the Line”
https://www.thecity.nyc/environment/2022/10/11/23398202/request-tree-planting-311-nyc-parks
We’ve eaten at the restaurant a couple of times now… The food and service is excellent and the decor speaks for itself… It is a great new addition to the neighborhood and I hope this encourages more people to go and try the restaurant. You will love it!
Usually in the case of new construction, the onus is put on the developer to plant trees as a condition of the development. Given that these are new pits and the high-end nature of the hotel, I would be surprised if the hotel doesn’t take care of it themselves in short order…
Yes, per their ST1 Street Tree checklist, they are required to plant a certain number of trees depending on the length of their street frontage.
https://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/BScanJobDocumentServlet?requestid=5&passjobnumber=121193010&passdocnumber=21&allbin=1002927&scancode=ES650363003
You are a tree expert. Thanks for the info!
The trees are in!
Would be interesting to know what the hotel thinks of Estancia 460’s shed…
Envious probably. Fouquet doesn’t even have a shed.
Why? The hotel construction site was a nuisance for years.
Neighborhood loves estancia and their shed. It’s packed every night with families and kids. Best restaurant in the area.