Dame | |
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![]() The restaurant's exterior in 2024 | |
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Restaurant information | |
Street address | 87 MacDougal St |
City | New York |
State | New York |
Coordinates | 40°43′44″N74°00′05″W / 40.728988°N 74.001512°W |
Website | damenewyork |
Dame is a restaurant in New York City. [1] The restaurant serves seafood and British cuisine.
The restaurant first opened in 2020 as a pop up in a coffee shop on the Lower East Side, [2] and later, on MacDougal Street. [3] The pop-up was originally called "Dame Summer Club". [4] The restaurant's operators, Patricia Howard and Ed Szymanski, eventually signed a lease for a permanent location, next to the second pop up venue on MacDougal. [5] Howard and Szymanksi met while working at The Beatrice Inn. [6]
The restaurant is located near Lord's, a restaurant also run by Howard and Szymanski. [4] [7] Lord's opened in 2022. [7]
Hannah Goldfield, in a positive review of the restaurant published by The New Yorker , praised the fish and chips as the best preparation of the dish she had ever eaten. [6] Pete Wells praised the restaurant, writing in his review that it had "a fresh point of view" on presenting seafood. [8] Wells highlighted Dame's fish and chips as his favorite entrée served by the restaurant. [8]
The restaurant was added to the Michelin Guide for New York City in 2022. [9]