Former Gotham Bar site in Manhattan has new owner – Business News
One of Manhattan’s most fabled however presently empty restaurant websites gained’t be darkish for much longer.
Texas-born Italian delicacies grasp Stefano Secchi, the chef of Michelin-starred Rezdora and Massara, each in Flatiron, purchased the retail condominium at 12 East twelfth St. that was home to Gotham Bar and Grill and later, merely Gotham till it closed two years in the past.
Gotham’s former 12 E. twelfth Street location has been vacant for 2 years. Stephen Yang for NY Post
Modern-American Gotham was long one of the town’s most honored eating places. It misplaced its luster after chef Alfred Portale left to launch his own place on West 18th Street. New house owners and several other new cooks tried their arms but it surely closed for good in 2024.
We referred to as Secchi’s Emilia Romagna-inspired menu at Rezdora “sinfully delicious.”
The asking price on the two-level, 7,800 square-foot space was $6.5 million, in response to Newmark’s Jeffrey Roseman, who with colleague Mark Frankel represented the sellers, recognized as 12/12 Realty Associates. Shopping Center Group’s Jacqueline Klinger and Ian Rice repped the patrons.
A source mentioned Secchi beat out a massive discipline of suitors for the space: “Every big name looked at it.”
No additional info on Secchi’s plans for the space was instantly obtainable.
Other main cooks who labored at Gotham included Tom Colicchio, Wylie Dufresne, Bill Telepan and the late Tom Valenti.
