Cornelia Street Café

On its 10th anniversary, Cornelia Street Cafe was proclaimed "a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" by the City of New York. It's an amazing and unlikely story. It was founded by three artists in 1977 and has been serving marvelous food at moderate prices ever since. It also serves up 35 wines by the glass and some 700 shows a year. Over the years it has been a home for all sorts of performers: from Suzanne Vega and the Songwriters Exchange to Eve Ensler and The Vagina Monologues, from Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann to Poet Laureate Billy Collins, from Senator Eugene McCarthy reading his poetry to neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks reading his prose, from members of Monty Python to members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, from comedians to cellists, from stiltwalkers to ventriloquists. And for all kinds of civilians an celebrities

We've been named one of Time Out's Top 100 Restaurants, Village Voice's Best of New York Food, Zagat Nightlife Award of Distinction, New York Post's "Must" Bar, Poetry Calendar's Best New York Poetry Series, All About Jazz's Jazz Venue of the Year (five years in a row), Waterford Crystal's Best Wine-by-the-Glass Program, Downbeat's 100 Great Jazz Clubs of the World, and Village Arts Award for Inspired Cuisine.

Come in for breakfast, lunch, brunch, dinner, every conceivable kind of spoken word and music, art and so much more. We look forward to seeing you!