New York has 25,997 bars and restaurants. L’Express has set itself the tough mission of testing a few, which opened less than six months ago.
Table with sea view
It is the new favorite destination of New Yorkers. City Vineyard opened on the Hudson River at the end of July. And his “rooftop bar” (rooftop bar) is no stranger to its success. This restaurant operated by City Winery, a well-known New York wine cellar that doubles as a performance hall, fills with young executives keen to watch the sunset after work. The view is worth its weight in gold.
From Pier 26, you can gaze at the river, the New Jersey coastline and the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan. A covered bar-restaurant on the ground floor allows those with the cold to take refuge in the warmth. The wines, served with cheese platters and other dishes, come from the production of City Winery, but also from California.
City Vineyard Pier 26 ou 233 West Street. www.cityvineyardnyc.com
From the rooftop of the City Vineyard, we contemplate the Hudson River and the skyscrapers of southern Manhattan.
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A scotch in Brooklyn
A distillery in a shipyard, you had to think about it! In 2012, the Kings County Distillery – the oldest in New York, still in operation – took up residence in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where warships had been manufactured since 1806. Fifty years after its closure in 1966, the site knows a renaissance with the arrival of film studios, start-up incubators and other companies united under the banner of made in Brooklyn.
In addition to its production space, accessible during guided tours (Tuesday to Sunday), the Kings County Distillery launched a tasting room in May where you can savor various local whiskeys and bourbons with a snack. A place open seven days a week, still little known and whose retro atmosphere has something to seduce even those who do not like brandy. To gain height, head to Rooftop Reds, still at Brooklyn Navy Yard. This surprising rooftop vineyard welcomes the curious until December 1 for tastings in the middle of the vines.
Kings County Distillery Tasting Room: 299 Sands Street. www.kingscountydistillery.com; Rooftop Reds: Building 275, via the Sands Street entrance www.rooftopreds.com
United States-Cuba rapprochement
New York is the city of cocktails. BlackTail reminds us why. Located on Pier A (Pier A) which, at the southern tip of Manhattan, is home to many bars and restaurants, this address recreates the atmosphere of an American bar from 1930s Cuba. Don’t try to book: it’s impossible.
Le Blacktail Restaurant, in New York.
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To get there, you have to go upstairs, not without having passed a first step: you will be made to wait if your group has latecomers. Here, we come for cocktails created by Jack McGarry, a legend of New York mixology who offers forty of his precious beverages. Count at least 16 dollars a cocktail.
BlackTail 22 Battery Place. www.blacktailnyc.com
The come-back of a “Parisian”
The child prodigy is back in his country. Daniel Rose, the most French of American chefs, to whom we owe Spring and the Bourse et la Vie, in Paris, launched in June the Cuckoo, in SoHo. Its ambition: to pay tribute to the techniques learned at the Paul-Bocuse Institute and from its mentors André Soltner and Alain Sailhac.
French restaurant Le Coucou, LaFayette Street, SoHo New York.
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From the open kitchen that opens onto his manor-style restaurant, the young chef combines the classics of his adopted country with the flavors of his native country: will you be tempted by the tongue of veal served with American caviar? Dinner and breakfast only.
Le Coucou 168 Lafayette Street. www.lecoucou.com
Long live Italy
It’s a good sign: at the large Italian market Eataly, it is not uncommon to meet … Italians! The brand, which already delighted New Yorkers in a hurry in the Flatiron district (central Manhattan), opened in August in the south of the island, next to the 9/11 memorial museum, in a district in full Renaissance. No less than 10,000 products are displayed on the shelves of this large anthill-like market which also offers five restaurants with various price ranges.
Le restaurant italien Eataly, 101 Libert Street, New York.
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Eataly Downtown 101 Liberty Street (3rd Floor) www.eataly.com
Made in Brooklyn
Few tourists venture to Crown Heights and yet this area of Brooklyn is on the rise. On Franklin Avenue, an artery rich in restaurants, BKW is the symbol of the metamorphosis of this corner of New York, which today attracts artists and students.
Opened in June by the team at Brooklyn Winery, a local wine cellar, the restaurant is run by Michael Gordon, a chef who worked in the kitchens of David Bouley. The menu is meant to be local. There are wines made in Brooklyn or from the New York region of the Finger Lakes, north of the city. Booking is recommended.
BKW 747 Franklin Avenue. www.bkwnyc.com
A very “chic” apartment
Imagine a restaurant in your living room. This is the concept behind L’Appart, a new address in southern Manhattan. In this upscale establishment, close to One World Trade Center, everything is done to make customers feel at home. The decor evokes that of a home with a large open kitchen where three professionals are busy.
Only about thirty seats are available in the hall. And the chef, Frenchman Nicolas Abello (trained with Pierre Gagnaire and Gérard Vié), leaves his kitchen to discuss with customers. Impossible to give the card: it changes every week, even every day. The only certainty: customers are greeted with a glass of champagne and leave with a box of chocolates.
The Apartment Reservations required. 225 Liberty Street, within the District. www.lappartnyc.com
The Cartier Mansion is back
After two and a half years of work, the Cartier house reopens its doors on 5th Avenue. Both museum and boutique, the Cartier Mansion became, almost a hundred years ago, the emblem of the famous jewelry brand in the United States. Pierre Cartier, the founder’s grandson, acquired this elegant building from financier Morton Plant in 1917 in exchange for $ 100 … and a double-strand pearl necklace estimated at $ 1 million.
Today, the building returns to its history. The new boutique, which, by the way, saw its surface area quadruple, gave its salons the names of illustrious clients: Grace Kelly, Gary Cooper and Andy Warhol. Craftsman of the economic and cultural proximity between France and the United States, Pierre Cartier considered himself a link between the two countries. Cartier Mansion, 653, 5th Avenue, New York
Everything that moves in a guide
Another guide? Yes, but New York out of the Box has the originality of focusing its attention on everything that moves within “Gotham”. Compact, dense, alternating good plans, maps, proposals for walks and portraits of inhabitants, it is particularly rich in Brooklyn, the district which has undergone the most fantastic transformation since the end of the 1990s. take only one, it could be that one.
New York, by Laure Watrin and Jeanne Chiaravalli. Out of the Box collection (Les Arènes), 460 p., 18.90 euros.
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