Café Carmellini is Andrew Carmellini’s French-Italian restaurant in the mansion of The Fifth Avenue Hotel, at 250 Fifth Avenue on the corner of 28th Street in NoMad, open since 2023. Breakfast runs from 7 to 11am, dinner from 5 to 10pm; dinner mains cost $52 to $84, and the Chicken Gran Sasso for two $45 a person.
You want a grand New York dining room for a celebration, or a quieter breakfast or business lunch inside a hotel you may be staying in.
The billYou want cooking that justifies every dollar, or a quick booking: dinner opens 4 weeks ahead and the bill climbs fast.
Other NoMad tablesCafé Carmellini opened with the hotel in the autumn of 2023, in the mansion McKim, Mead & White built in 1907.
Andrew Carmellini, a James Beard Award winner, calls it his return to fine dining after 30 years of cooking, with a menu that joins Italian and French cooking to a New York sensibility (Café Carmellini). Grub Street recalls that he started at Lespinasse and opened Café Boulud for Daniel Boulud, before Locanda Verde, The Dutch, Lafayette and Bar Primi (Grub Street).
The building was a Gilded Age bank, Grub Street writes, and Martin Brudnizki dressed the room in blue velvet banquettes, glass peacocks over the bar and a canopy of trees down the middle, with a wraparound mezzanine for privacy (Grub Street). The MICHELIN Guide describes the crab mille-feuille, the scallops Cardoz in memory of Floyd Cardoz and the squab en croûte with foie gras (MICHELIN Guide).
The Infatuation, in January 2024, wrote of excellent cocktails, generous portions and an incredible free bread (The Infatuation). The lobster cannelloni with caviar cost $75 then; today’s menu lists a lobster cannelloni della casa at $49 (menus).
We read the scores on 5 October 2026: 4.8 on Resy from 7,500 diners, 4.5 on Google from 595 reviews. Google’s listing closes breakfast at 10.45am on weekdays; the restaurant’s site says 11am.
Hours from Café Carmellini’s site and prices from its menus, read on 5 October 2026, before tax and tip.
Every day from 7 to 11am (hours): a butter croissant $7, 2 farm eggs with potatoes and toast $26, a smoked salmon Benedict $33; the Fifth Avenue Breakfast, with orange juice and coffee, is $42 (menus). The MICHELIN Guide counts it among the city’s power-lunch rooms (MICHELIN Guide).
Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am to 2.30pm: the Champagne brunch is 2 courses for $75 a person, with osetra caviar as a $190 supplement (menus).
Every night from 5 to 10pm (hours). Oysters $26, wagyu beef tartare $35, sweet crab and pepper mille-feuille $33, lobster cannelloni $49; mains from grilled dorade at $52 to lamb alla Messinese at $84; the Chicken Gran Sasso for 2 at $45 a person (menus). Tables can be booked on the wraparound mezzanine, Grub Street writes (Grub Street).
The wood-panelled Portrait Bar adjoins the restaurant and pours until 1am, 2am from Thursday to Saturday (Google).
Café Carmellini is in the hotel’s mansion on Fifth Avenue at 28th Street. 11 Madison Park is 6 minutes away on foot, Eataly 7 and Gramercy Tavern 11.
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Prices in dollars from Café Carmellini’s menus, read on 5 October 2026, before tax and tip.
From Café Carmellini’s site, Resy and the hotel, read on 5 October 2026.
| Address | 250 Fifth Avenue, at 28th Street, New York, NY 10001; telephone 212-231-9200 |
|---|---|
| Chef | Andrew Carmellini, James Beard Award winner, in his first restaurant under his own name |
| Since | 2023, in The Fifth Avenue Hotel, which opened that October |
| Bookings | On Resy only, 4 weeks in advance, parties of up to 8 |
| Dress code | Dress your best for a night out in New York; jackets are not required |
| Corkage | $100 per 750 ml bottle, at most one bottle per reservation |
| Getting there | The R and W to 28 St, a minute away, or the 6 to 28 St, 5 minutes |
Café Carmellini is open to everyone; staying at The Fifth adds the butler, the Portrait Bar next door and tea and martinis made in the room.
The Grand King, 35 m², is among the largest rooms in the tower; the Mansion Suite, 53 m², is in the 1907 building itself, with a sunken tub and a heated floor. On Google Hotels, read on 5 October 2026 for 2 adults, the cheapest nights ran from $511 in February 2027 to $1,065 in mid-November, before 14.75% and $3.50 a night of tax.
The 15 room and suite types, with photosHours from each restaurant’s Google listing, read on 5 October 2026, and the minutes on foot from the hotel.
For a tasting menu, 11 Madison Park is 6 minutes away, open for dinner every night and for lunch from Friday to Sunday; Gramercy Tavern, 11 minutes away, serves all day from 11.30am to 11pm; Eataly Flatiron, 7 minutes away, is the casual Italian choice, open from 9am to 11pm. Café Carmellini is the only one of the 4 that opens for breakfast at 7am.
| Restaurant | Where | From its Google listing | From the hotel |
|---|---|---|---|
| Café Carmellini | 250 Fifth Avenue | Breakfast from 7am, weekday lunch, weekend brunch, dinner 5–10pm. | You are here |
| 11 Madison Park | 11 Madison Avenue | Monday–Thursday 5–10pm; Friday noon–10pm; Saturday–Sunday noon–1pm and 5–11pm. | 6 minutes on foot, 468 m |
| Gramercy Tavern | 42 East 20th Street | Daily 11.30am–11pm. | 11 minutes on foot, 847 m |
| Eataly Flatiron | 200 Fifth Avenue | Daily 9am–11pm. | 7 minutes on foot, 492 m |
Minutes on foot computed on OpenStreetMap’s paths from the hotel on 5 October 2026, the day we read each listing.
On Resy Café Carmellini scores 4.8 out of 5 from 7,500 diners, on Google 4.5 from 595, read on 5 October 2026.
Hours, bookings, prices, dress, MICHELIN and whether it is worth it: what people ask before going.
Breakfast every day 7–11am; lunch Monday to Friday 11.45am–2pm; brunch Saturday and Sunday 11.30am–2.30pm; dinner every day 5–10pm (Café Carmellini). Google’s listing ends breakfast at 10.45am on weekdays.
Yes, it is listed in the MICHELIN Guide, without a star; the guide also names it among New York’s best rooms for a power lunch (MICHELIN Guide). The hotel itself holds Two MICHELIN Keys.
For the room and an occasion, most diners say yes: 4.8 out of 5 on Resy from 7,500 reviews (Resy). The Infatuation gave it 7.0 in January 2024, praising the cocktails and the room but finding too many misses for the bill (The Infatuation); a starter and a main come to $76–$120 a person before drinks, tax and tip.
Its grand room and Andrew Carmellini’s French-Italian cooking: the crab mille-feuille, the lobster cannelloni, the squab en croûte and the Chicken Gran Sasso for 2 (MICHELIN Guide, menus).
The restaurant asks you to dress your best for a night out in New York; jackets are not required (Café Carmellini).
On Resy only: tables open 4 weeks ahead for parties of up to 8, and when none are left you can join the Notify list; changes and cancellations go by email (Resy).
Starters $24–$36, the lobster cannelloni $49, mains $52–$84, desserts $15–$22, cocktails $25 (menus). Before drinks, tax and tip, a starter and a main come to $76–$120 a person.
Yes, one 750 ml bottle per reservation, for a $100 corkage fee (Café Carmellini).
Yes: it publishes a 3-course New Year’s Eve prix fixe at $225 a person, first, main and dessert, with supplements on some dishes; the page gives no year, so it is the latest menu out (New Year’s Eve menu).
Yes, on enquiry through its private events page; prices are not published (Café Carmellini).
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