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The book publisher Michael Korda said in 1977 that the Grill Room was "the most powerful place to eat lunch in town". [30] Two years later, an Esquire article declared the Grill Room to be the setting for "America's Most Powerful Lunch". [31] [32] According to CNN, the term "power lunch" may have come from the Esquire article. [33]
The grill room's "stern" faced south toward 44th Street and contained a relic of the Gimcrack, the ship on which the NYYC had been founded in 1845. [42] [47] The New York Yacht Club Building's cafe. At the rear of the grill room were glass doors, [43] [47] which led to a billiards room with four billiards tables and another large fireplace.
The 22-story clubhouse contains three dining spaces (the "Tap Room," the "Grill Room," and the Roof Dining Room and Terrace), four bars (in the Tap Room, Grill Room, Main Lounge, and on the Roof Terrace), banquet rooms for up to 500 people (including the 20th-floor Grand Ballroom), 138 guest rooms, a library, a fitness and squash center with ...
East of the arcade was a vestibule leading to a grill room on Vanderbilt Avenue; [49] this vestibule was designed in a similar style to St. Paul's Chapel in lower Manhattan. [3] [33] The grill room was at the center of the Vanderbilt Avenue elevation and contained a dance floor surrounded by a slightly raised dining area.
Southern end of the Grand Ballroom, circa 1910. Within its restrained exterior, the Astor featured a long list of elaborately themed ballrooms and exotic restaurants: the Old New York lobby, the American Indian Grill Room decorated with artifacts collected with the help of the American Museum of Natural History, a Flemish smoking room, a Pompeiian billiard room, the Hunt Room decorated in ...
[215] [365] [366] That year, the New York World dubbed the hotel the "Home-for-the-Incurably Opulent". [367] [368] By 1909, the Palm Court was consistently exceeding its 350-person capacity. [215] [369] During the 1920s, the basement's grill room was a popular meeting place for young adults born during the Lost Generation. [370]
The club featured a lesser known upstairs gambling club where men would often meet their mistresses; however, after Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt discovered it, the room became the fashionable haunt of New York high society. [5] Mayor Jimmy Walker's victory celebration was held at the Colony in 1925. [5]
The Musket Room is a restaurant in New York City. [1] The restaurant originally served food inspired by the cuisine of New Zealand, but has since expanded its menu.