The Colony Grill Room is the main restaurant of the 73-room Beaumont Hotel, the first such venture from experienced restaurateurs Corbin & King (of The Delaunay,The Wolseley, Fischers, Zedel and Colbert). The building dates back to 1927 and was originally a full service garage for Selfridges, and more recently an Avis car hire building. Apart from the facade, which is listed, the new building was created entirely from scratch, but the interior design echoes the art deco feel of that period. The exception to this is what appears to be a steel figure crouching on a corner of the roof, and which is in fact a hotel suite created by Antony Gormley. The hotel opened in September 2014.
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Unlike the middle European tinge of some of their ventures such as The Delaunay and Fischers, The Colony Grill Room is intended to invoke memories of New York and London of a vague yesteryear. The retro feel extends to the art deco style of the windowless dining room, with much use of dark wood and black and white photos of movie stars on the walls. The dining room can seat around 100 diners at any one time, the tables packed close together with comfortable red banquette seating.
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The head chef is Lee Ward, who opened Fischers in June 2014 and The Delaunay in 2011, after working for nine years for an event company called Rhubarb. The menu, featuring dishes such as shrimp cocktail and oysters Rockerfeller, had starters ranging in price from £6.75 to £17.50, main courses from £15.50 to £33 and side dishes from £3.75 to £5.50 (which seemed to me pretty ambitious for a tomato and onion salad). Ameristar poker room. The dining room is open all day.
The wine list featured around 125 labels, ranging in price from £19.75 to £295, with a median price of £59 and an average mark-up of 2.6 times retail price, which is quite fair by London standards. Example bottles included Grüner Veltliner Wachauer Rainer Wess 2013 at £31 for a wine that you can find in the high street for £12, Le Volte 2012 at £54 compared to a shop price of £19, and Two Blondes Cabernet Sauvignon/Cabernet Franc 2010 at £98 for a bottle that will set you back £40 in a shop.
Prawn cocktail was a modern interpretation of the dish, with prawns hanging over a bowl in which was a spicy tomato sauce rather than the traditional Marie-Rose sauce. The prawns were cooked a fraction longer than ideal but were fine, and the sauce had a quite lively chilli kick (12/20). A Caesar salad had crisp romaine lettuce, croutons, and a traditional dressing that could perhaps have had a touch more lemon and Worcestershire sauce to my taste (12/20).
Veal Pojarski is a traditional French recipe, using minced veal chops to create a sort of version of the more familiar wiener schnitzel. The breadcrumb coating was crisp and rested on a bed of spinach and a tomato-based sauce with a pleasant hint of paprika, which nicely lifted the flavour of the meat (14/20). This came with good quality thin fries, properly seasoned (14/20). Whole Dover sole was also good, served on the bone and precisely cooked, offered with a well-judged Béarnaise sauce (14/20).
Apple pie was made using Bramley apples that had sufficient tartness to balance the pastry, and the vanilla ice cream on the side had plenty of flavour (14/20). An ice cream sundae had a trio of ice creams, the best of which was a hazelnut ice cream that had a few fresh hazelnuts mixed in - hazelnuts quickly go stale if frozen, so this was a nice touch (13/20). Coffee was a Musetti blend and was fine.
The bill came to £108 a head, albeit with a bottle of excellent Kientzler Alsace Riesling, and the mildly irritating £2 cover charge that this restaurant group insist on levying. If you shared a bottle of modest wine then a more typical bill per person would be around £85 a head. Service was charming, with careful topping up of drinks and staff that were enthusiastic and helpful. The suave Jeremy King was present in the dining room, overseeing details of his latest creation. As often with Corbin & King restaurants, the overall package of lovely design, appealing menu and excellent service softens the impact of the bill that is actually quite high for the level of food that appears.
- For the restaurant in London, see Colony (restaurant)
The Colony was a restaurant in New York City known as a meeting place of café society. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph L. Pani, who later sold it to a group of employees. It closed in 1971.
History[edit]
Nowhere in New York will you find such a coterie of cosmopolites, such a consistently smart and impressive collection of people of 'breeding' as gathers daily for luncheon at the Colony. —George Ross, 1934[1]
Located on Sixty-first Street off Madison Avenue, The Colony was founded in 1919 by Joseph Pani,[2][3] who sold it to employees Ernest Cerutti, Alfred Hartmann, and Gene Cavallero, Sr in 1922.[2][4] At first, it was known for attracting playboys trolling for dates. The club featured a lesser known upstairs gambling club where men would often meet their mistresses; however, after Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt discovered it, the room became the fashionable haunt of New York high society.[5] Mayor Jimmy Walker's victory celebration was held at the Colony in 1925.[5]
The Colony served liquor during prohibition, serving it in cups rather than glasses, and keeping its liquor in a service elevator where it could easily be moved, though Mayor Walker protected the restaurant from raids.[5] It was the first restaurant in New York to have air conditioning, which was installed in the late 1920s. The Colony became the first establishment in the U.S. to serve Dom Pérignon champagne.[5]Sirio Maccioni was the bar captain at the Colony from 1960 to 1970.[5]
Competitors of the Colony included the 21 Club, Le Pavillon, Restaurant LaRue, and later the Four Seasons.[6]
Patrons[edit]
Among its noted customers were Groucho Marx, Dick Cavett,[7]the Vanderbilts, Preston Sturges, Mike Todd, Fulco di Verdura, Hattie Carnegie, Carmel Snow, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Elsie de Wolfe, Groucho Marx, Mrs. Irving Berlin, Millicent Rogers, Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Betsey Whitney, George Vanderbilt, Samuel Newhouse, Marlene Dietrich, Lucius Beebe, Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Carol Channing, Richard Nixon, C.Z. Guest, Ernest Hemingway, Luis Miguel Dominguin, Walter Wanger, John Ringling North, Frank Sinatra, Aristotle Onassis, the Duke of Windsor, the Duchess of Windsor, Merle Oberon, Vincent Astor, Elsa Maxwell, Rex Harrison, Richard Widmark, Errol Flynn, Babe Paley, Frank Shields, Frank Costello, J. Edgar Hoover, Orson Welles, Gilbert Miller, Joan Crawford, Mia Farrow, Serge Obolensky, Charles Revson, Leona Helmsley, John Wayne, Oleg Cassini, Grace Kelly, Jean Howard, Clarence Brown, Walter Wanger, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lee Radziwill, Gloria Guinness, Betsy Bloomingdale, Amanda Burden, Jean Shrimpton, Jill St. John, Truman Capote, and Billy Baldwin.[5]
The Colony had great American chic, in the sense of Cole Porter. And it was full of stylish people. So I got the idea of sending a photographer—usually Tony Palmieri—to stand outside the restaurant at lunchtime, to find out what was going on and to see what they were wearing. —John Fairchild, editor of Women's Wear Daily, 1960s[5]
When it closed on December 4, 1971, many of its faithful patrons attended. The building which housed it has since been demolished.[5]
See also[edit]
- Colony Club, a women only club near the Colony restaurant and frequented by many of the same people
References[edit]
- ^George Ross, Tips on Tables (restaurant guide), 1934, (as quoted in William Grimes' Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York; (2009); ISBN0865476926 )
- ^ abGene Cavallero Jr., Who Ran the Colony Restaurant, Dies at 92; article, by William Grimes; New York Times; June 16, 2016
- ^Pani to Open Forty-Second Street Restaurant also Madison Avenue; article, by Charles R Osborne; New York Hotel Record; December 21, 1920
- ^James Trager, The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present; HarperCollins; (2010); p 398; isbn needed
- ^ abcdefghThe Colony Elite; article, by Amy Fine Collins; Vanity Fair; December 2000;
- ^William Grimes, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York Hardcover; (2009); p 153; ISBN0865476926
- ^The Dick Cavett Show; original telecast 1969
Bibliography[edit]
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- Iles Brody, The Colony: Portrait of a Restaurant and Its Famous Recipes, Greenberg, 1945.
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