Elaine’s is now gone for good.
The sale of the two Upper East Side tenements that once housed the storied restaurant just hit city records. 1703 and 1705 Second Avenue closed on January 20, for a price of $8.045 million. Read More
It became clear that without Elaine Kaufman, there was no Elaine’s. Will the Upper East Side be any worse off, then, if the buildings that used to be the restaurant’s home are gone, too? Read More
The storied Upper East Side restaurant Elaine’s, a favorite of New York’s monied and influential for decades, may have closed earlier this year, but boutique auction house Doyle is hosting a Sept. 20 auction that will allow bidders to take home memorabilia to remember the haunt.
Doyle (which is located mere blocks from the former Read More
The lights have only just gone out and the griddle is still cooling, but the building that had been home to Elaine’s for 48 years may not be long for this world. Read More
Last Monday, The Observer shouldered open the door of Elaine Kaufman’s legendary restaurant only to knock into an editor at Vanity Fair whom we knew from college, already drinking martinis with her two friends, an editor at The New Yorker and an editor at Fast Company–the younger generation soaking up whatever ambiance remained of the Read More
Aging New York literati may still be praying for a savior to swoop in and save Elaine’s, but Graydon Carter will not be making any eleventh-hour power purchases.
The Upper East Side ink-stained parlor announced it would close this Thursday, May 26, pouring its last martini nearly 50 years after the pugnacious and huge-hearted Read More
Transom was saddened to receive the news that the Upper East Side institution Elaine’s-the restaurant named for its legendary owner, Elaine Kaufman, who passed away in December at 81-will be closing after 48 years of business after last call on May 26, 2011. Diane Becker, the longtime manager who inherited the restaurant from Kaufman, explained Read More
In a back nook of Elaine’s someone had placed a blown-up old cover of Quest magazine featuring the chiseled features of Chuck Pfeiffer. “CHUCK,” the headline read, “MYTHICAL MADMAN WARRIOR.”
“Seventy, it’s an odd age,” Mr. Pfeiffer told The Observer, staring at the younger version of himself, a decoration for his birthday party last Read More
Elaine Kaufman had 400 custom-made dresses and ran a restaurant internationally famed for a heady sort of Upper East Side glamour. Her penthouse around the corner was comparatively unremarkable.
Kaufman, who died in December, left her eponymous restaurant at 88th Street and Second Avenue to its manager, Diane Becker. But her 86th Street co-op could Read More
After years of patronage at Elaine Kaufman’s famed eponymous Upper East Side restaurant, Gay Talese has become, in the weeks since Elaine’s death, one of the primary writers associated with the beloved salon. Any obituary worth its salt reached out to Talese for a comment – it wouldn’t be complete without a Read More
