Since 1998, Andrew Tarlow has been accountable for opening a few of Brooklyn’s coziest neighborhood eating places. His latest spot, Borgo, brings his signature heat to Manhattan for the very first time—thanks, partly, to the historic double storefront it inhabits. “This was a restaurant referred to as I Trulli for 25 years,” he says. “However primarily based on New York Metropolis photographs, individuals have been consuming and ingesting within at the very least half of this constructing for 100 years, if not longer. You could possibly really feel it whenever you walked in. Individuals had met their individual right here, individuals had gotten married right here. There weren’t many touches of modernity in any respect.”
Andrew and his spouse, Kate Huling, maintained that attraction by restoring as many present components as doable, from the arches to the marble bar to the plaster ceiling. They then added their very own layers of character with knotty pine wainscoting, tin partitions, and glowy sconces—all of which have been fabricated on-site by their very own building firm, led by foreman Matthew Bernbach. “The handmade ingredient of it creates a lot of the romance of being within the area,” Kate says. “We now have folks that we admire and belief and respect who actually know how one can convey that for us. It’s an extremely significant, artistic, collaborative course of.”
Right here, eight concepts to borrow from Borgo for pulling off that layered, inviting look.
Pictures by Martien Mulder.
1. Choose the colour that speaks to you.
