Events
The Hotel Chelsea offers a spread of historic spaces and settings, lovingly restored, to host any event. From intimate dinner parties to lavish weddings, there is a seductive space within, well-suited for a gathering of any size.
The Bard Room
Named for former owner and manager Stanley Bard, the Bard Room is a grand ballroom with historic architectural characteristics and antique brass chandeliers ideal for larger celebrations. Any gathering will be infused with glamour in this sophisticated setting. Available day or night, equipped with a private entrance and bar.
Features
- Private built-in bar
- Capacity: 100 seated / standing
- Private street entrance via 23rd street
- Tables / chairs provided
- Divisable into 2 rooms
- Flexible floorplan
- Available breakfast / lunch / dinner
Tea Room
TEA ROOM is set inside the original General Manager’s office and located just off the main Lobby. The Tea Room is perfect for daytime meetings or larger private dinners. This beautifully appointed room features the original fireplace, detailed ceilings and a street facing window drenching the space in natural light.
Features
- Capacity: 20 seated / standing
- Available breakfast / lunch / dinner
- Sound system
- Prix-fixe and custom beverage pairing menus available
Cervantes Room
El QUIJOTE has, and will continue to be, one of New York’s most iconic Spanish Restaurants. Opening its doors in the 1930s, this Spanish bar and restaurant became a watering hole for many eccentric figures in the 1960s and onward.
Features
- Private built-in bar
- Buyout Capacity: 60 seated / standing
- Cervantes Room Capacity: 10 seated / standing
- Tables/chairs included
- Sound system
- Semi private Wine Room available
- Custom beverage pairing menus available
PIANO ROOM
PIANO ROOM, located within the Lobby Bar and accommodating up to 75 guests for full buyouts. It is a grand European-style space that serves as a “living room” for the hotel featuring custom furniture, ornate rugs, sun-filled Solarium and a Baby Grand Piano, it makes the perfect setting for the classiest of cocktail parties.
Features
- Capacity: 75 seated / standing
- Private entrance directly off of lobby
- Comfortable lounge seating throughout
- Attached glass-enclosed solarium with natural light that pours into the space
- Available breakfast / lunch / dinner
- Ideal for cocktail-style receptions of up to 75 to small meetings of up to 20
Cave à Vin + Solarium Bar
Café Chelsea's private dining space with adjoining private Solarium Bar is suited for dinners up to 32 or standing cocktail receptions up to 50. The Cave à Vin with mahogany paneled walls, brass details and French tiled floor makes for the chicest of dinner parties. The Solarium Bar is a bright and airy space with a glass ceiling, white painted brick and white marble topped bar, the perfect place to gather before dinner.
Features
- Capacity: 32 seated / 50 standing
- Built in private bar
- Available breakfast / lunch / dinner
- Prix-fixe and custom beverage pairing menus available
- Sound system
Petit CafÉ
Café Chelsea is The Hotel Chelsea's first new restaurant since 1930 and inhabiting America's oldest tackle shop, serves French-American faire in a Parisan setting. Hotel Chelsea was designed by French architect, Phillip Hubert and Café Chelsea feels at home in this setting which fostered some of the greatest French nouveau réalistes of the 1960's.
Features
- Capacity: 32 seated / standing
- Available breakfast / lunch / dinner
- Sound system
- Prix-fixe and custom beverage pairing menus available
