Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street
New YorkNY10014
Payment Methods: Cash
Closed
- Sunday
- 10:00am-10:45pm
- Monday
- 10:00am-10:45pm
- Tuesday
- 10:00am-10:45pm
- Wednesday
- 10:00am-10:45pm
- Thursday
- 10:00am-10:45pm
- Friday
- 10:00am-10:45pm
- Saturday
- 10:00am-10:45pm
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Description
Restaurant, Cafe, and Performance Space. The Cornelia Street Café is owned and operated by founder Robin Hirsch, Angelo Verga, and chef Dan Latham. It is open seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch. It serves Thanksgiving Dinner, Christmas Dinner, New Year’s Eve Dinner, Valentine's Day dinner--and more than seven hundred cultural events a year.
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One of New York's Best:
Nominated for best reading series for hosting one of the city's long-running and most convivial reading scenes.
Editorial Reviews
"Old-school West Village" dining thrives at this circa-1977 "charmer" with a "yoga vibe", offering "perfectly acceptable" Franco-American fare and a "cheap and cheerful" brunch; although "starting to show its age", it gets "bonus" points for the "cool" performance space downstairs.
Historic downstairs spot hosts histrionic poetry readings and a science series that draws more Nobel laureates than you can shake a particle accelerator at—if you're smart, you'll reserve tickets for the brainy events. Upstairs is a quaint brick affair with creative café fare to complement the eclectic programming. We love the sesame salmon and the juicy burger.
This cozy coffeehouse has been a multi-culti literary fixture of the West Village for more than 20 years.:
In Short
The downstairs performance space hosts a packed calendar of poets, novelists, storytellers and musicians. On Saturday evenings, a multi-cultural reading series features work by...
The downstairs performance space hosts a packed calendar of poets, novelists, storytellers and musicians. On Saturday evenings, a multi-cultural reading series features work by...
In May 1977 three artists--Robin Hirsch, a writer and director; Charles McKenna, an actor; and Raphaela Pivetta, a visual artist--stumbled across a tiny storefront on Cornelia Street in the heart of Greenwich Village and thought it the perfect place to open a café. For two months they scraped and sanded, plumbed and plastered, and did the intricate dance one does with the authorities who live...
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Restaurant, Cafe, and Performance Space. The Cornelia Street Café is owned and operated by founder Robin Hirsch, Angelo Verga, and chef Dan Latham. It is open seven days a week, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch. It serves Thanksgiving Dinner, Christmas Dinner, New Year’s Eve Dinner, Valentine’s Day dinner—and more than seven hundred cultural events a year.
