Following the success of its Los Angeles location, one of the art world’s most high-powered couples is expanding their hospitality footprint, with their first New York restaurant.
Iwan and Manuela Wirth, known for mega modern art gallery Hauser & Wirth, are opening Manuela at 130 Prince Street, at Wooster Street this fall — just steps from the Hauser & Wirth Soho outpost. (It is the company’s fourth exhibition space in Manhattan. Hauser & Wirth debuted in 1992 in Zurich; the restaurant is a separate entity.)
The first Manuela opened in Downtown Los Angeles, in an urban farm space with live chickens, attached to the gallery. In 2017,
The New York menu will be distinct from Los Angeles, not least of all because it will be without the live animals, in a kitchen overseen by Sean Froedtert: “Freshly prepared dishes, plated simply and unadulterated... country cooking over a charcoal grill or in a wood-fired oven, with a rigorous commitment to sourcing locally.”
The opening of Manuela is part of a larger portfolio for the Wirths, who first opened Roth Bar, in 2014, in Somerset, England, and have grown to some 12 locations of hospitality projects globally under the Artfarm group umbrella abroad, which includes their own hotel with a restaurant, a seafood spot, and a farm stay and operates independently of the galleries.
