But in other ways, the place has been updated: Longtime operator David Rabin brought in Michael White, the three-star Michelin chef behind Marea and Ai Fiori, to modernize the menu which is now dotted with a delicious array of seafood. (The Dover Sole is a must, as is the trofie with lobster.) Then, he partnered with Kyle Hotchkiss Carone’s Grand Tour Hospitality (known for their buzzy spots Saint Theo’s and American Bar) to help infuse a more au courant feel. It’s no longer jazz that pipes through the room, but rather a ’90s and aughts-nostalgic playlist filled with the sounds of Grace Jones, U2, and Sinead O’Connor. “What I always loved about The Lambs Club is that it was this modern, clubby place that also had so much history,” Kyle Hotchkiss Carone tells Vogue. “What we are doing with this latest iteration is examining what that looks like in a 2022 environment, as we are in a bit of a different world.”
The best way to describe the ambiance? New-old New York. Which, by the way, is a booming trend nowadays. Searching for authenticity, and a dose of old-school glamour after the lockdown days, a younger clientele has been flocking to historic midtown and uptown haunts. There’s a bouncer at Bemelmans, and The Palm Court at the Plaza, according to The New York Times, is seeing a surge in reservations from twentysomethings. Meanwhile Hurley’s, a townhouse off of Rockefeller Center that once served as a watering hole for Jack Kerouac and David Letterman, has been revived as Pebble Bar with a regular line out the door.
Lambs and co. certainly appear to challenge the old—and perhaps tired—assumption about New Yorkers not wanting to venture to midtown or uptown. “We spend so much of our young New York lives eschewing these iconic places—we avoid Rockefeller Center, we avoid Time Square,” muses Hotchkiss Carone. “But there’s something adventurous about it. People want to get out of the same ten-block radius they’ve been living in. They want to have a little old New York vibe from time to time.”
Last Saturday night at The Lambs Club, the lights were low, the fire roared, and every table was full. The crowd embodied a varied aesthetic: some men in streetwear, others in dinner jackets; some women in crop tops, others, in pearls.
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