Update: Since I visited, the bar has been renovated and reopened as the Campbell Bar, according to this New York Timesarticle.įind The Campbell Bar inside Grand Central Station, 15 Vanderbilt Avenue. To reflect this beautiful history, the cocktail menu harks back to the Jazz Age, with new takes on classics, like the amazing Prohibition Punch – a fish-bowl-sized serving of passion fruit juices, Appleton Rum and Gran Gala, topped with Moet & Chandon! One is all you’ll need! Our dining hours are from 11:30 AM to our last seating at 9:30 PM Monday through Friday. You can even see Campbell’s original safe, his name engraved on it, under the fireplace. Grand Central Oyster Bar 4.2 7174 Reviews 31 to 50 Seafood Top Tags: Good for business meals Lively Charming We are a New York landmark with Guastavino tiled vaulted ceilings located on the lower level of the magnificent Grand Central Terminal. He used the office until 1940 after which time it was used as a holding cell for the police, CBS’s executive offices, before being left empty and abandoned until it reopened as a public cocktail bar in 1999. At once, Campbell furnished it with oriental rugs, 13th-century Italian furniture, priceless porcelain vases, a huge leaded glass window and a stone fireplace. After making a fortune in steamships and buying up the railways, Mr Vanderbuilt – once one of the wealthiest men in America – decided to rebuild Grand Central to reflect his wealth, at the same time letting his friend, tycoon John W Campbell, set up a private office inside the station in 1923. To fully appreciate the Campbell Apartment, it helps to know a bit about its history. If you close your eyes, you can almost hear Billie Holiday and Count Basie playing softly in the background, cocktails being shaken up and stirred, New York’s finest artists and writers of days gone by chatting and laughing… …a Jazz Age-style cocktail bar known as The Campbell Bar. To the left of the lift, head up the small set of stairs into the pink light… At the top, you’ll find… Press the button, step inside and head down to the basement.

See the enormous gold light fixtures hanging from the ceiling in the southwest wing of the station? Head towards them until you come to… Bars we serve top quality Prosecco, sparkling & still wine and a selection of.

The journey will commence with a complimentary glass of. Please sit back, relax, and sip on a wide selection of our award-winning cocktails. With an extensive list of over 40 cocktails, we guarantee you’ll find a cocktail that you love. Of the 1000s of people that pass through Grand Central Station each day, only a few know about its most magnificent secret: an incredible Jazz-Age cocktail bar hidden in the once private office of a New York railroad millionaire. The Platform 18 menu exclusively features cocktails, impeccable service, and stunning scenery as a standard.

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