The best restaurant buyouts in Manhattan, NYC

This mint green bistro could’ve been plucked straight from the boulevards of Paris and plopped into Greenwich Village. Built in 1915, Dante’s contemporary interiors keep up with the trends while paying homage to its history with vintage touches.

Winner of the best bar in the world in 2019, Dante is the perfect place to plan a drink-oriented event. The extensive selection of expertly crafted signature and seasonal cocktails is sure to delight your guests and keep the celebratory energy going. We highly recommend planning a holiday gathering here, so you can enjoy their festive cocktails like the spiced pear bellini and the toffee apple Manhattan.

Once you've worked up an appetite, dig into Dante's menu of light Mediterranean fare. For seated dining events, they offer a five-course prix fixe menu served family-style.

Dante can accommodate up to 60 guests for seated restaurant buyouts.

If a group trip to the Tuscan countryside is a bit out of the budget for your event, Peasant in Lower Manhattan is the next best thing. This rustic Italian restaurant has a cozy farmhouse aesthetic and serves a menu of rustic, hearty meals. With a roaring fire kitchen and a whole roast pig dinner available, you'll leave the stress and worries of modern life at the door.

While the name might not scream party venue to you, Peasant’s cocktail menu might. It features a variety of signature Italian cocktails including three different Negroni variations.

Peasant is available for a full buyout for up to 120 guests.

If you're bored of the endless array of minimalist contemporary restaurants in Manhattan, Loulou is the stuff of maximalist dreams. With the place all to yourself, you'll be able to explore this unique venue and discover some hidden surprises. The warmly lit dining room offers a cozy setting for enjoying classic French dishes, while the speakeasy disguised as a vintage soda machine and the lush floral cabanas will enchant your guests.

For events, Loulou takes care of just about everything. Their catering options include an open bar, passed hors d'oeuvres, and a prix fixe dining menu. They can even recommend musicians and dancers to liven up your event.

A full buyout of Loulou, including the bistro, speakeasy, and cabanas, can accommodate up to 150 guests.

There's nothing quite like a skyline view to wow your guests and add an extra bit of excitement to your event. At Manhatta, you can treat your guests to an exclusive front-row seat to glittering city views paired with a decadent meal. Their innovative menu has everything from lobster carpaccio served with salted blueberries to poached pears served with brie ice cream, and even the snobbiest foodies will surely find something new to try.

Manhatta has three floors available for full buyouts, each decorated with Art Deco-inspired designs. The restaurant can accommodate up to 175 guests, and it can be combined with some of the larger event spaces for a multi-part function.

Surrounded by towering buildings, Tiny's adorable pink exterior makes it stand out from its Tribeca neighbors and offers a memorable setting for your next event. While the pink facade might make you nervous that the interior looks like a 9-year-old's princess-themed birthday party, you'll be surprised to find a sophisticated, rustic atmosphere perfect for an intimate gathering.

Tiny's serves hearty comfort food and offers seated dining or cocktail parties for private events. A full buyout of the restaurant includes the use of both Tiny's and The Bar Upstairs, a small bar with vintage furniture and exposed brick. The venue can accommodate up to 60 guests.

Housing what this writer believes to be NYC’s best burger, Fairfax Tavern and Bar is a modern West Village institution, serving gastropub-style grub from 8 til late. The interior is half-Parisian bistro and half-hunting lodge, with rattan chairs, tin ceilings, vintage signage from across the country, and, uh – some taxidermied animals. You’ll find some framed paintings on the ceilings too, since they ran out of space on the walls. It’s a maximalist’s dream.

Still, the vibe at Fairfax remains cozy and rustic. And you might not even mind the taxidermied animals after you’ve seen the menu: along with their famous burger, you can order beef croquettes, ricotta toast, branzino, and spinach and artichoke dip, and compliment it with one of their famous cocktails.

Fairfax can host up to 45 guests for an intimate restaurant buyout event.

The newest cool girl restaurant in the West Village, Zimmi’s pays homage to old-world Southern French cooking. Behind the charming striped awning of its corner space on Bedford and Commerce is an intimate dining room with dim lighting, limewashed walls, and checkerboard tablecloths. The subtly quirky decor is inspired by the restaurant’s namesake, Marie Zimmerman, a 20th-century queer metalwork and jewelry designer. On the menu, you’ll find unique seasonal dishes often overlooked by other French restaurants: foie-gras artichoke soup, lamb stew with olives and potatoes, pork collar with hazelnut and dandelion, and fig leaf mille-feuille.

Zimmi’s is exclusively available for full buyouts of up to 40 guests.

On the grounds of the historic Hotel Chelsea, Café Chelsea offers an elevated take on traditional French bistro dining. The restaurant is the newest addition to the hotel since the Depression-era El Quijote, though the design remains intentionally grounded in the past: art by current and former Hotel Chelsea tenants hangs on the walls, vintage chandeliers hang from the ceiling, and signature pale yellow walls and black and white tiling tie in nicely with the mahogany fixtures. On the menu, you’ll find authentic bistro fare, like steak frites and poulet rôti, as well as house specials like vanilla cognac ice cream and the Chelsea salad.

The restaurant is available for a full buyout of up to 60 seated guests.

The team at Tuxedo Hospitality knows how to throw a party, with venues like Chinese Tuxedo and Peachy’s in Chinatown. The Tyger is a playful homage to Southeast Asian cuisine, with influences from China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand. This laid-back cafe is vibrant and sun-drenched, decorated with rattan wood chairs and palms, evoking a cafe atmosphere on the streets of Bangkok, Hanoi or Chennai.

Their prix-fixe menu features aromatic ingredients as the star of the show, with everything from roasted sea bass with coconut curry to crispy lamb ribs in a Cambodian sweet & sour sauce. There’s a full gluten-free, vegan, and shellfish-free menu as well. Enjoy unique cocktails like the Tyger Strype, with tequila, white tea, cardamom, and mango. The Tyger can accommodate buyouts of up to 300 guests.

If you’ve been obsessively checking Resy for the past few months – or years – hoping a table at Don Angie would miraculously pop up, this might be your chance for glory. Rent it out for the whole evening for a special celebration with up to 50 guests and enjoy your bragging rights. Don Angie offers a unique, one-of-a-kind Italian dining experience in the West Village: with an interior reminiscent of a boujie pizza joint and funky dishes like pepperoni fried rice and a chrysanthemum salad (which is a must-try). Other talk-of-the-town menu items include the buffalo milk caramelle pasta with candied kumquat, stuffed garlic flatbread, and caramelized pear sorbetto. Your friends and soon-to-be friends will thank you.