A luxury department store in Paris founded in 1865. Printemps The restaurant will open in the high-rise apartment building at 1 Wall Street. Due to open in 2025, the Financial District complex will house five restaurants, all overseen by Saga Hospitality (Crown Shy, Saga), owned by James Kent, who specializes in setting the bar high in New York fine dining. The company is headquartered in Fidi. A spokesperson confirmed that all food and drink menus will be new and exclusive to the location, “ranging from fine dining to casual café.” Executive chef Gregory Gourdet will be at the helm, marking his first collaboration with Saga.
After training at Jean-Georges restaurant, Gourdet moved to Portland, Oregon in 2008 and cooked at the hotel restaurant Departure for 10 years. Best Chef He will appear as a judge in season 12 and later on. In 2022, he will open a wood-fired Haitian restaurant in Portland. CanIn 2023 he received a James Beard Award. “Best New Restaurant” He previously won a James Beard Award for his cookbook. Everybody’s Table.
“I am thrilled to join the Printemps team and contribute to this historic project,” Gourdet said in a press release. “As a native New Yorker, this is a homecoming for me, and I’m thrilled to be cooking again in New York, a city I’m still proud to call home.”
Over the past year, James Kent has been on a roll with expansion at Saga Hospitality. He’s moving forward with plans to open a seafood restaurant with attached bakery at 360 Park Avenue South at East 26th Street. The 7,000-square-foot space was formerly home to Park Avenue’s Fall/Winter/Spring/Summer. He has since announced that the restaurant group is prepping a 3,000-square-foot bakery that will be the anchor of a renovated Domino Sugar Factory building in Williamsburg, led by his group’s renowned pastry chef, Renata Ameni.
Printemps has about 20 stores, mainly in France, and recently Doha, Qatara hotel, a spa and a cinema. Since 2013, the group has Funded It comes from Divine Investments SA, a Qatar-backed investment fund.