Nearly two centuries after Delmonico’s opened America’s first fine-dining steakhouse in Manhattan’s Financial District, the restaurant has announced it is expanding to a second location in Midtown.
Delmonico’s Hospitality Group signed a lease for a sprawling, 11,735-square-foot restaurant space at the base of the 1330 Avenue of the Americas building, just down the street from MoMA.
Delmonico’s was founded in 1827 by Swiss-Italian immigrants Giovanni and Pietro Delmonico as a pastry shop, expanding into a fine dining establishment in 1837 and settling into its iconic triangular space on 56 Beaver St. Over nearly 200 years, the restaurant led the conversation on what it means to be a fine dining restaurant, innovating dishes like eggs Benedict, baked Alaska, lobster Newburg and Chicken a la Keene. These items are still offered on Delmonico’s menu and the menus of restaurants around the world…