When you first enter the newly reopened Manhattan restaurant Eleven Madison Park, on 24th Street and Madison Avenue, you are awestruck by the grandness of the interior, with its 24-foot-high ceiling, the magisterial steel case windows and vast, cavernous space. It looks like what it is, a three-Michelin-star temple to haute cuisine.
Since 1998, the restaurant has occupied the Art Deco lobby of the landmark 1928 Metropolitan Life North building, with 2,250 square feet in the main dining room and 650 square feet in the adjacent low-ceilinged bar. In 2011, the original owner, restaurateur Danny Meyer, sold it to Will Guidara and his partner, the celebrated chef Daniel Humm. Five years later they hired Brad Cloepfil, a restaurant regular, longtime friend, and principal of Allied Works Architecture, to reimagine the space. “It’s one of the most beautiful rooms in New York, with light streaming in from Madison Square Park on the west,” Cloepfil says. “I wanted to make it feel as if it was intended to be a restaurant, with its own character.”
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