Elmo Restaurant and Lounge NYC
Elmo Restaurant & Lounge
156 7th Avenue (near W. 19th St)
New York, NY 10011
(212) 337-8000
I highly recommend you to make a reservation because it does get packed even on a weekday!
Elmo Restaurant & Lounge
I have probably walked past this restaurant countless and countless of the times and never knew that it was Elmo. All I knew that along 7th avenue, there is loud music pumping out of this restaurant as if it was some kind of a fancy eat-in club. I captured this photo at 7pm on a Wednesday and it was packed inside and out. Luckily with the advice of my brother, who is a regular there, I had already made reservations to celebrate my friend Sally’s birthday.
The thumping of the loudness of the music grew intensely as I went into the restaurant with my party. It bothered me as first, but when the boyishly handsome waiter took us to a booth towards the back of the restaurant, I could hardly feel the music. If anything, I think by being in the back, we were away from the speakers. As we all seated down, I looked around and can see a lot of young, hip and deliciously stylish people. Girls where wearing tight short dresses, and the guys (a lot whom were gay since the restaurant was in a gay neighborhood- Chelsea) were dressed very sharply with a nice shirt with rolled up sleeves, and hair wildly spiked. This was the kind of crowd that I like to look at when I’m eating.
