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former New York City offices, fittingly at the corner of Pearl Street and Wall Street. Make your life easy by hosting your business dinners downstairs at chef John Fraser’s fantastic French chophouse, La Marchande. To be close to the action at the Javits Center, stay at Pendry Manhattan West, where you can finish any last-minute reports while gazing out over the city through your room’s floor-to-ceiling windows. Also in Midtown, the biggest hotel news is the long-awaited reopening of the Waldorf Astoria after an eight-year, US$2 billion restoration. Looking to host a lavish event? The Grand Ballroom is the city’s only three-tiered ballroom, with box seats and room for 1,550 well-heeled guests.
Power meals The best way to impress a client? Get a dinner reservation at one of the toughest tables in town. Right now that would be
‘Get a dinner reservation at one of the toughest tables in town’
BELOW: New York Public Library; BOTTOM: Dishes at Tatiana
is only available at lunch, FYI.) Of course, the city also does over-the-top steak dinners like nowhere else. Do it up at The Grill, Major Food Group’s ode to Old New York, where the prime rib is carved tableside and the pre-batched martinis are poured from great heights into chilled Christofle glasses.
Semma, whose regional South Indian cuisine landed it the top spot on The New York Times’ best restaurants list; Le Veau d’Or, an Upper East Side Parisian bistro from the team behind Frenchette; or Tatiana, star chef Kwame Onwuachi’s Afro-Caribbean hotspot at Lincoln Center. For a tieless business lunch, it’s tough to beat Union Square Cafe, the greenmarket-focused spot that launched restaurateur Danny Meyer’s career back in 1985. (The beloved 19th Street Burger
Convention centres and venues The Javits Center is a 307,000 sqm behemoth on Manhattan’s West Side hosting more than 1.2 million guests at upwards of 150 events each year, from the New York International Automobile Show to the Salesforce World Tour. A great waterfront option for large events is Pier 36, located at the base of Manhattan overlooking the East River and harbour. The 6,500 sqm entertainment venue has welcomed both Amazon and Disney for their upfronts, Snapchat and
Monday.com for major conferences, and even Hermès for the fashion house’s Fall 2024 runway show. There are also plenty of non-traditional event spaces to choose from, including the American Museum of Natural History, where you can have a seated dinner for 900 under the Hall of Ocean Life’s 29m blue whale; the New York Public Library’s iconic flagship on Fifth Avenue, whose Astor Hall can be transformed into an epic nightclub; and the New York Botanical Garden, for a conference to remember in the historic, Victorian-style glasshouse.
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IMAGES COURTESY OF WALL STREET HOTEL/GREG POWERS, ADOBE STOCK, COURTESY OF TATIAN/ALEX STANILOFF
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