The music starts playing again carlyle cafe , In New York. The iconic cabaret closed its doors in March 2020 and, after two years of closure, has just returned ready to make the jet fall in love again with a full lineup.
No matter how much time passes, there are icons that do not age and that even improve over the years. Centennial shops, historic hotels or restaurants full of stories, there are timeless ones that do not require further presentation, as is the case with the sophisticated and nocturnal carlyle cafe.
Carlyle Cafe.
If this 2022 began by announcing that we had among us again (a renovated) Temple Bar, a favorite among a devoted crowd of figures from the world of art and intellectuals, or the iconic El Quijote restaurant, a recreation site for bohemian New York, now it is adds to the party the bastion with capital letters of the classical cabaret in the Big Apple.
Cafe Carlyle entrance.
ICONS OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY
The Café Carlyle opened its doors in 1955 to quickly become an object of desire for just 90 attendees where they can enjoy a first class dinner with a show.
This intimate club for three decades was synonymous with enjoying Elaine Stritch, Eartha Kitt and, of course, the legendary Bobby Short, who made the lucky audience vibrate with tickets always sold out for 36 years.
Half a century later, this mainstay of classic New York City cabaret entertainment continued to attract socialites, politicians and celebrities in its distinguished and glamorous surroundings until it had to close its doors in March 2020 due to the pandemic.
Woody Allen used to show up regularly on monday nights to play with his jazz band. Now, its reopening comes with a calendar already full of interesting names: comedian Mario Cantone, actor John Lloyd Young, singer John Pizzarelli, writer Candance Bushnell... To name a few.
Eartha Kitt, Daniel Day-Lewis and Mia Farrow at Café Carlyle in 1994.
IN AN (ALMOST) CENTENARY HOTEL
Hidden behind a doorway on Madison Avenue, inside the hotel now run by the chain Rosewood , the Café Carlyle welcomes its guests between music themed murals made by the French artist Marcel Vertès, the two-time Oscar winner art director of Moulin Rouge (1952), to make them travel to a golden age of the past where talent and music are combined with the elegance and style of New York.
Murals by Marcel Vertes.
With the beautiful murals in the purest Parisian style in the background, the cafe invites you to sit in a perimeter that curves along the edge of a room that began to sound when the composer Richard Rodgers became a tenant of the hotel in which he is located, The Carlylees.
In fact, although the supper club has not undergone any changes during its closure, the hotel of the same name that houses it has undergone an interesting reform worth admiring after the show.
A classic of the sophisticated Upper East Side, today's Rosewood hotel The Carlylees has 35 floors and 190 rooms with an original Art Deco style from the renowned Dorothy Draper combined with the recent Tonychi studio intervention as well as a new restaurant: Dowling's at The Carlyle.
Evenings at Café Carlyle consist of dinner and a show.
What more excuses do we need to go back to New York?
Schedule: From Tuesday to Sunday, from 6:30 p.m.