NYC’s most precious film theater under a historic hotel almost impossible to reserve

The most delightful, delightful date of New York, dinner and a movie is almost impossible to reserve-and cost five times more than Regal, AMC or Loews.

On the last evening, 66 in-the-knowledge cinephiles withdrew to a Parisian Art Deco theater hidden at the basement level of the top five-star hotel for what was certainly the most decadent experience of the city theater.

Called “Cozy Classics”, the place at the hotel Barrier Fouquet’s New York, in the corner of Desbrosses and Greenwich Streets, has become an unofficial Sunday dinner club for film lovers with money to spend.

Tickets, which go up to $ 215 (tax and bankruptcy that is not included), provide access to a former private theater, where the participants artistically lies in love of velvet gold and plush chairs under an extremely gold leaf ceiling.

Sunday event, a special to the Oscars, was sold; They are usually.

While Cineplexes struggle to fill the seats with a pop-up and no doubt, phone-dependent defenders are the Nettle Rate-the Fouquet, which opened to the public in December, is Oasis Du Jour for good wires, well dressed and better.

“One of the rare places of the city you can go to have that vibe ‘Night Out’ and everyone is dressed,” said Milica Rajković, a Long Island City -based CFO and regularly at the Brasserie Restaurant.

“I saw couples in official clothing and then there were couples inside, you know, I would call it luxurious pajamas,” added Taylor Deves, who works in private banking. “She led the range.”

Kill with a little black dress and a Gucci coat, Dr. Dendy Engelman, a tribe -based dermatologist, appeared on Sunday for Oscar with three girlfriends.

“You can say people really cared about the show,” she said. “There was no scam. People were very focused on the speeches and won. It suits a very attentive crowd. “

“So stylish,” joined a regular event, which spoke by posting on the condition of anonymity for a bonne, French digestive reason: its film date is it cinq à September sideways.

Officially Christianly Christian Cinema – a reference to their property Le Maestic waiting for the Cannes Film Festival – the theater had previously been open to private shows for brands and production companies (the Tribeca Film Festival is only next door). But she had never been open to the public.

Now, the glowing shots do not mind staring at $ 110 (for two drinks and a movie) to $ 215 (for special events) with a regular ticket for the show once a week of nostalgic favorites is $ 165 (dinner and a movie).

Still, to sit between this inner circle, you will need to understand how to reserve.

Tickets fall to Resy two weeks before a show and are not pre-retra as possible. They have not been advertised either, beyond a measured post on the hotel Instagram. Even then, no link is given – you will need to send messages and their Instagram page is a sea of ​​requests. (Or, get an internal advice from us: once the event goes directly, go to the Fouquet’s Instagram page, click on their profile and move down to a photo of the theater; will redirect you to reassess.)

“People ask us all the time if they can book in advance and what our monthly calendar looks like,” said Victoria Menechella Bello, the director of the hotel marketing who is behind the events, for The Post. “But we’re adhering to that period two weeks out to make it a little more attractive and secret. It sells a lot, very soon.”

However, his hotel restaurant regulations, Brasserie Fouquet and members of the private hotel club who seem to have the interior.

“We would be in Fouquet’s in Paris many times, so we thought we would see how the New York restaurant accumulates,” said Gregory Day, a resident of Los Angeles visiting the city with his wife Angela on Sunday. “We got inside and they are, like,” Are you here for the event? “”

“We had come in for the weekend to leave the Oscars,” Dita added, the president of hospitality in the Hollywood Mani Brothers real estate group. “So it was quite funny.”

But if you think you enjoy $ 330 for a movie date for two is a little crazy, don’t worry – that’s how they do. That is why they have loaded it with additions, like a prior priority dinner in Brasserie Fouquet’s, where the main courses normally exceed $ 34 (mushroom) to $ 115 (beef).

There are other skills: free popcorn served in stylish retro boxes and individual candy sacks (cocktails should be ordered by the bar). However, it is the brilliant French-Deo-E at the famous design studio of Martin Brudizki-and the most powerful name for which most are coming.

The evidence of the established concept, the shows will now continue indefinitely. And this month theater will celebrate International Women’s Day with all women-driven films-so you expect Sophia Coppola à Gogo.

“We’re learning as we go, but I think what we have done with the latest shows is that what they do best are the oldest films,” says Menechella Bello. “During Christmas, we did ‘at home alone 2’ and during Valentine’s Day we showed ‘beautiful women’, and they were sold immediately.

“Then the movies that people love. They want to see again.”