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For the restaurant in London, see Colony (restaurant)

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The Colony was a restaurant in New York City known as a meeting place of café society. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph L. Pani, who later sold it to a group of employees. It closed in 1971.

History[edit]

Located on Sixty-first Street off Madison Avenue, The Colony was founded in 1919 by Joseph Pani,^[2][3] who sold it to employees Ernest Cerutti, Alfred Hartmann, and Gene Cavallero, Sr in 1922.^[2][4] At first, it was known for attracting playboys trolling for dates. 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]

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The Colony served liquor during prohibition, serving it in cups rather than glasses, and keeping its liquor in a service elevator where it could easily be moved, though Mayor Walker protected the restaurant from raids.^[5] It was the first restaurant in New York to have air conditioning, which was installed in the late 1920s. The Colony became the first establishment in the U.S. to serve Dom Pérignon champagne.^[5]Sirio Maccioni was the bar captain at the Colony from 1960 to 1970.^[5]

Competitors of the Colony included the 21 Club, Le Pavillon, Restaurant LaRue, and later the Four Seasons.^[6]

Patrons[edit]

Among its noted customers were Groucho Marx, Dick Cavett,^[7]the Vanderbilts, Preston Sturges, Mike Todd, Fulco di Verdura, Hattie Carnegie, Carmel Snow, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Elsie de Wolfe, Groucho Marx, Mrs. Irving Berlin, Millicent Rogers, Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Betsey Whitney, George Vanderbilt, Samuel Newhouse, Marlene Dietrich, Lucius Beebe, Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Carol Channing, Richard Nixon, C.Z. Guest, Ernest Hemingway, Luis Miguel Dominguin, Walter Wanger, John Ringling North, Frank Sinatra, Aristotle Onassis, the Duke of Windsor, the Duchess of Windsor, Merle Oberon, Vincent Astor, Elsa Maxwell, Rex Harrison, Richard Widmark, Errol Flynn, Babe Paley, Frank Shields, Frank Costello, J. Edgar Hoover, Orson Welles, Gilbert Miller, Joan Crawford, Mia Farrow, Serge Obolensky, Charles Revson, Leona Helmsley, John Wayne, Oleg Cassini, Grace Kelly, Jean Howard, Clarence Brown, Walter Wanger, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Lee Radziwill, Gloria Guinness, Betsy Bloomingdale, Amanda Burden, Jean Shrimpton, Jill St. John, Truman Capote, and Billy Baldwin.^[5]

When it closed on December 4, 1971, many of its faithful patrons attended. The building which housed it has since been demolished.^[5]

See also[edit]

• Colony Club, a women only club near the Colony restaurant and frequented by many of the same people

References[edit]

1. ^George Ross, Tips on Tables (restaurant guide), 1934, (as quoted in William Grimes' Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York; (2009); ISBN0865476926 )
2. ^ ^abGene Cavallero Jr., Who Ran the Colony Restaurant, Dies at 92; article, by William Grimes; New York Times; June 16, 2016
3. ^Pani to Open Forty-Second Street Restaurant also Madison Avenue; article, by Charles R Osborne; New York Hotel Record; December 21, 1920
4. ^James Trager, The New York Chronology: The Ultimate Compendium of Events, People, and Anecdotes from the Dutch to the Present; HarperCollins; (2010); p 398; isbn needed
5. ^ ^abcdefghThe Colony Elite; article, by Amy Fine Collins; Vanity Fair; December 2000;
6. ^William Grimes, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York Hardcover; (2009); p 153; ISBN0865476926
7. ^The Dick Cavett Show; original telecast 1969

Bibliography[edit]

• Iles Brody, The Colony: Portrait of a Restaurant and Its Famous Recipes, Greenberg, 1945.

Coordinates: 40°45′54″N73°58′14″W / 40.76489°N 73.97057°W

Colony, or Colony Bar and Grill is a restaurant, bar and grill located at 7–9 Paddington Street, Marylebone, Central London, England. It opened in early April 2010 and was run by restaurateur Carlo Spetale and the Michelin-starred executive chef Atul Kochhar.^[1][2]

Atul Kocchar announced he was leaving the business in June 2011 to focus on other interests. The split was described as amicable.^[3]

The cuisine of the restaurant is inspired by that of the British colonies from colonial Asia, East Africa, the Caribbean etc. but is mainly inspired by Indian street food, specifically 'the marinades, aromatic flavours and grilling methods' of the street traders of colonial Asia.^[4][5] The General Manager of the restaurant is John Lacombe, formerly of The Connaught Hotel, 5th Floor Restaurant at Harvey Nichols and Notting Hill Brasserie amongst others. Lacombe is also responsible for the winery of the restaurant.^[2] It has a reputable cocktail lounge.

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Reception[edit]

The restaurant has received mixed reviews. Zoe Williams of The Daily Telegraph was highly praising and described the restaurant as 'I think this is what heaven will look like – complete with a barman making you feel it would be almost rude not to have a martini. '^[4] Williams was content with her meal and remarked that the 'pancakes were made of chickpea flour (the chickpeas’ main contribution was a lovely, rich density, with only the whiff of their flavour), packed with spinach, in a tomato and cream sauce'.^[4]

Tracey MacLeod of The Independent was critical about the menu, saying:

Colony, in slightly less leafy Marylebone, calls itself a bar and grill, but the menu is far less casual than this implies. Rather than serving a selection of patties, puris and grilled meats, or going down the Anglo-Indian route pioneered by Chutney Mary, the restaurant offers complex, recondite dishes which would have the memsahibs calling for the smelling salts. Roasted mallard marinated in lindi peppers and stone moss? Lamb meat loaf infused with rose petals? Veal vindaloo with coriander chips? Whatever this is, it certainly isn't street food.^[5]

She said about the food, 'Even though many of the dishes we tried were very good, they weren't quite good enough to earn Colony a rave review', and remarked that the chicken tikka masala was 'authentically inauthentic, in its creamy sweetness and brick-red colour.'^[5] Both MacLeod and Hugo Rifkind of The Times were unconvinced with the authenticity of the cuisine, mentioning that is more a fusion of Eastern and Western cuisines rather than truly Asian.^[1]

Matthew Norman of The Guardian was strongly negative of the restaurant, giving it a scathing review and a score of 0.05/10.^[6]

Notable diners[edit]

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The restaurant is said to be a favourite of Simon Cowell's when he is in London and in September 2010 Liam Gallagher stormed out of the restaurant after the staff refused to make him a bacon butty.^[7]

References[edit]

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1. ^ ^ab'What the reviews say: Colony bar and grill'. The Sunday Times. 13 May 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
2. ^ ^ab'Team'. Colony Bar and Grill. Archived from the original on 1 July 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
3. ^http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/People/Atul-Kochhar-leaves-Colony-renews-plans-for-Atul-s-Kitchen
4. ^ ^abcWilliams, Zoe (13 April 2010). 'London restaurant guide: Colony, London W1'. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
5. ^ ^abcMacLeod, Tracey (4 April 2010). 'Colony Bar and Grill, 7–9 Paddington Street, London'. The Independent. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
6. ^Norman, Matthew (10 April 2010). 'Colony London Restaurant Review'. The Guardian. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
7. ^'Liam Gallagher storms out of restaurant after not being served bacon butties'. Daily Mirror. 4 September 2010. Retrieved 6 September 2010.

External links[edit]

• Carlo Spetale runs several restaurant businesses in London: http://intercreditreport.com/search/1?query=Carlo+spetale .