Bridge Cafe

Bridge Café is a small quaint restaurant featuring an all American wine list, extensive single malt and scotch list and a menu focuses on American modern with global influences including seafood, steaks, pastas, buffalo etc.

After lunch or dinner, stroll along historic Water Street, then on to the South Street Seaport museums and shops.

Sunday brunch ($22) includes a complimentary juice, mimosa, bloody mary or screwdriver, a first course, and a choice of entrees such as eggs Benedict, buttermilk pancakes and fresh fruit crepes.

TEMPORARILY CLOSED DUE TO SANDY. Oldest NYC restaurant location, sleeps at the foot of the BK Bridge. Since 1794. Looks like the site of a nautical murder mystery and is rumored to be haunted by ghosts of sailors and whores, like your parents' bedroom. Here's to hoping the famous buffalo steak levitates into your mouth.

This cozy pub-café in a circa-1800 building is a stone's throw from the Brooklyn Bridge, and is one of the oldest restaurants in the city. But don't expect a captivating view---it's like looking at the bridge's ankles. Once the haunt of longshoremen and ladies-of-the-night, Bridge Café is now the watering hole of Wall Street executives. In season, soft-shell crabs in shallot butter is the...

Some sleuthing in the late 90s by journalist Richard McDermott gave the Bridge Cafe a stunning come from behind late round victory as the "oldest drinking establishment in New York City." Located in the shadow of its namesake, the cafe is housed in a building that dates back to 1794 - when there was no Brooklyn Bridge to be named after. McDermott managed to show that the same address has housed...

The Scene
With its yellow slat walls, nautical art and well-worn oak bar, this onetime fishermen's lair is now a snug little neighbor to both South Street Seaport and the glass sequoias...

The Bridge Cafe is located at 279 Water Street in a building dating back to 1794. That was the year that Newell Narme opened a ‘grocery and wine and porter bottler’ in the wooden building, which at that time was two-and-a-half stories with a peaked roof.”

“In 1794, the portion of Water Street running through this neighborhood and the buildings on its east side marked the East River’s western...