Double Crown

Double Crown
316 Bowery
(@ Bleecker)
East Village
212.254.0350

Double Crown: Get ready to double your pleasure on the Bowery—on Sept. 16, AvroKo, the slick design firm behind Public, is opening Double Crown, in the old Mannahatta space. While it doesn’t look like much at the moment, expect the 150-seater to have a jaw-dropping interior—in addition to Public, AvroKo’s design wizards are behind timelessly chic Park Avenue Spring, European Union, and Stanton Social. Originally, the restaurant had a working name of Superior, but that was recently ditched for Double Crown, reflecting a scene and cuisine inspired by Britain’s 19th century colonial reach into the Far East (India, SIngapore, and China). Public’s chef, Brad Farmerie, has been uprooted to oversee the kitchen, along with by Australian chef de cuisine Chris Rendell, and ideas so far include curried mango Coronation chicken tea sandwiches and tandoori marinated foi gras. A separate bar and lounge, Madame Geneva's, will serve British-, Indian-, and Asian-inspired cocktails. So there you have it—another regal destination and another nail in the coffin for the city’s former skid row—imperialism, indeed.