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The food hall at Fifth Avenue’s landmarked Lord & Taylor building will finally open later this month, making the historic Midtown property accessible to the public for the first time since the department store closed in 2019. Shaver Hall, a 35,000-square-foot dining and entertainment destination, will open on the ground floor on June 26, featuring 11 chef-curated eateries, three full-service restaurants, and live entertainment. Amazon purchased the 1914 building in 2020 and converted it into the company’s largest corporate office space in the city, which opened in 2023.
Named after former Lord & Taylor president Dorothy Shaver, who became the first woman to head a multimillion-dollar business in the United States, Shaver Hall is being developed by FB Society, the restaurant incubator and operator behind Nashville’s Assembly Food Hall and Dallas’ Legacy Hall.
The venue aims to offer a modern take on the traditional food hall, featuring a curated lineup of original dining concepts while incorporating elements of the building’s history through an “upscale-yet-approachable” design aesthetic, as 6sqft previously reported.
Leading the dining concepts are three full-service restaurants. Pick & Cheese, founded by Matthew Carver, marks the London-born concept’s first U.S. location. It features a 200-foot cheese conveyor belt and a carousel of plates featuring charcuterie and locally sourced condiments…