Maialino opened at the Gramercy Park Hotel in 2009 and closed in March 2020. The Gramercy Park Block Association’s November 2025 letter recalled the restaurant as a place for morning coffee, family celebrations and conversations among neighbors. Its absence remained a frequent subject of questions to the Block Association.
The November 2025 announcement
The letter announced that Danny Meyer and his team had found a new location at 67 Irving Place, in the former Bedford Cheese Shop space. The building was undergoing an office-to-residential conversion, and the restaurant’s design work was beginning.
The November 2025 announcement anticipated a 2027 opening and the return of chef Joe Downey-Zayas.
This planned restaurant location is separate from the restoration of the Gramercy Park Hotel. Earlier letters had discussed hopes for the Hotel and Maialino together; the November announcement gave the restaurant a different intended address.
Sources
Adapted from the Block Association’s November 18, 2025 newsletter, “Maialino Is Coming Home to Gramercy!”