GO TO HOTEL BARRIÈRE FOUQUET’S, NEW YORK
Tribeca is now officially tres chic
This is literally a place you can walk by and out of the corner of your eye notice something that looks starkly (and darkly) chic and intriguing. I say that with authority because that is exactly what happened to me last Fall, on lower Greenwich Street in Manhattan. All of a sudden there’s an exquisite, 97 room luxury hotel in an area that until just a few years ago was a barren wasteland of decomposing warehouses and tenement buildings between Greenwich Village and the thriving part of Tribeca. The owners, Groupe Barrière, have pedigree, being fourth generation hoteliers with world class properties in, among other places, St. Barth’s, Cannes, Paris (on the Champs-Elysées, which about one-ups everyone else) and in the French alpine, hot skiing destination town of Courchevel. New York is virtually slumming it for them.
The interior design, with a strong art deco theme, is immaculate and management says it’s intended to honor the area’s industrialism and Parisian elegance. The effect, whatever the dichotomous inspiration, is stunning. There’s a duplex penthouse suite called, redundantly, “Le Grand Appartement Terrasse.” So, there’s a terrace then, which is big-ups in space-challenged New York City. There are two restaurants, Fouquet’s New York, which is based on the owner’s famous Parisian brasserie Fouquet’s, and Par Ici Café, with a vegetarian menu. The Titsou bar is fashioned after a Paris Speakeasy. This hotel is already a big winner.
It’s expensive though — rooms start at $1,000, suites at around $2,000, the corner suites, which are great rooms, $3,000 to almost $4,000. They don’t even tell you what the duplex penthouse suite goes for a night. You have to call them to find out…
https://www.hotelsbarriere.com/en/collection-fouquets/new-york.html
