Journal Entry
Gramercy Restaurants Open Late: Who Still Serves After 10pm
Of the Gramercy restaurants checked for this guide, the one open latest is Pete’s Tavern on the corner of Irving Place and East 18th Street, whose kitchen serves until midnight on Friday and Saturday and 11pm the rest of the week, with the bar open until 2am every night. Behind it comes a group of 11pm kitchens: Casa Mono on Irving Place every day, Rezdôra on East 20th Street every night, the front Tavern room at Gramercy Tavern daily, and Tarallucci e Vino on East 18th Street on Friday and Saturday. Hours below were read from each restaurant’s own site in October 2026.
None of the others publishes a kitchen that runs later than Pete’s. So the practical question in Gramercy is not where to eat at 1am, it is which door is still seating at 10:30pm, and which of them will still take a booking that late.
Which Gramercy restaurants serve after 10pm?
| Restaurant | Address | Best for | Key verified detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pete’s Tavern | 129 E 18th St, at Irving Pl | The latest plate | Kitchen to midnight Fri–Sat, 11pm Sun–Thu; bar to 2am |
| Casa Mono | 52 Irving Pl, at 17th St | Late small plates, any night | Noon–11pm daily |
| Rezdôra | 27 E 20th St | A booked late pasta dinner | Dinner 5–11pm every night |
| Gramercy Tavern, the Tavern | 42 E 20th St | A late table without much planning | 11:30am–11pm daily |
| Tarallucci e Vino | 15 E 18th St | Late weekend plates by Union Square | To 11pm Fri–Sat, 10:30pm other nights |
| Felice Flatiron | 220 Fifth Ave | A late weekend dinner by Madison Square Park | Dinner to 11pm Fri–Sat, 10pm Sun–Thu |
| Union Square Cafe | 101 E 19th St | A planned dinner that ends late | Dinner to 10:30pm; last reservation 9:30pm |
Midnight and after: Pete’s Tavern
Pete’s Tavern describes itself as the oldest continuously operating restaurant and bar in New York City, serving since 1864, with a menu of what it calls elevated American comfort food. It is not an Italian restaurant, but on a late night that matters less than the hours. The bar is open seven days a week from noon to 2am. The kitchen closes at 11pm Sunday through Thursday and at midnight on Friday and Saturday, which makes this the only kitchen in this guide still serving after 11.
Best suited to a meal after a show, a late shift, or a dinner that started somewhere else and ran long.
The 11pm kitchens
Casa Mono, 52 Irving Place
Casa Mono, a Spanish restaurant on the corner of Irving Place and 17th Street, lists the same hours every day of the week: noon to 11pm. No night is shorter than the others, which is unusual on these blocks, where Sunday and Monday often close early. It takes reservations through its own site.
Best suited to a late dinner on a Sunday or Monday, when other kitchens have shortened their evenings.
Rezdôra, 27 East 20th Street
Rezdôra’s dinner service runs from 5pm to 11pm every night, Monday included, with lunch Tuesday through Sunday. It is the latest Italian kitchen in this guide, and a late reservation here is a plan rather than a fallback. The 11pm close is consistent across the week, which helps if the evening has a fixed late start.
Best suited to a booked Italian dinner that starts at 9pm or after.
Gramercy Tavern, the Tavern, 42 East 20th Street
Gramercy Tavern runs two rooms on two clocks. The front room, the Tavern, lists 11:30am to 11pm every day. The Dining Room closes earlier, at 9:30pm Sunday through Thursday and 10pm on Friday and Saturday. If the hour is late and nothing is booked, the Tavern is the side of the restaurant to try.
Best suited to an unplanned late dinner with a serious kitchen behind it.
Tarallucci e Vino, 15 East 18th Street
Tarallucci e Vino’s Union Square location runs from early morning into the evening: 8am to 10:30pm Monday through Thursday, 8am to 11pm on Friday, 9am to 11pm on Saturday and 11am to 10:30pm on Sunday. The 11pm close is a weekend extension, so on a Tuesday plan for 10:30.
Best suited to a late weekend plate a block above Union Square.
Felice Flatiron, 220 Fifth Avenue
A few blocks north of the neighborhood, Felice Flatiron, which describes itself as an Italian neighborhood restaurant rooted in Tuscan culinary tradition, lists dinner from 4pm to 10pm Sunday through Thursday and to 11pm on Friday and Saturday. It is the late Italian option on the Madison Square Park side.
Best suited to a late Friday or Saturday dinner on the Flatiron end.
The 10 to 10:30pm group
Most of the neighborhood’s other kitchens close between 10pm and 10:30pm, which is late enough for a 9pm dinner and not much more.
Union Square Cafe on East 19th Street serves dinner every day from 5pm to 10:30pm, with the last dinner reservation at 9:30pm. Paul & Jimmy’s on East 18th Street runs until 10pm Tuesday through Saturday and 9pm on Sunday and Monday. Novità on East 22nd Street lists dinner until 10pm every night. Cosme on East 21st Street closes at 10pm Thursday through Saturday and 9:30pm Sunday through Wednesday. West of Fifth Avenue, Zero Otto Nove on West 21st Street runs to 10:30pm on Friday and Saturday.
How to book a late table in Gramercy
Read the last reservation, not the closing time. Union Square Cafe closes at 10:30pm but takes its last dinner booking at 9:30pm. Other dining rooms may work the same way, so a restaurant that closes at 11pm is not necessarily seating at 10:45; ask when you book.
Pick the casual room. Gramercy Tavern describes its front Tavern room as a casual space serving à la carte, which makes it the obvious place to try without a booking, and a bar seat at Pete’s Tavern is the other. Rezdôra is the opposite: book it, or plan on another night.
Check the day of the week. Paul & Jimmy’s closes an hour earlier on Sunday and Monday, Tarallucci e Vino only runs to 11pm on Friday and Saturday, and Cosme stops at 9:30pm early in the week. Casa Mono, Rezdôra and Gramercy Tavern’s front room are the kitchens here that keep an 11pm close every night.
Order dessert where you sit. With almost everything closing by 11, the walk to a second room for something sweet rarely works here, which is the whole argument of why dessert in Gramercy belongs at the table. If the late night follows a show, dinner before a show in Gramercy covers the other end of the evening, and for the Sunday version of these hours, see where to eat in Gramercy on a Sunday. Around the square itself, the sister guide to late-night Italian near Union Square covers the same question a few blocks south.
Frequently asked questions
What restaurants in Gramercy are open after 11pm?
Pete’s Tavern, on the corner of Irving Place and East 18th Street, is the one kitchen in this guide serving after 11pm, until midnight on Friday and Saturday. Its bar stays open until 2am every night. The other late kitchens here, including Casa Mono, Rezdôra and Gramercy Tavern’s front room, close at 11pm.
Which Italian restaurant in Gramercy stays open latest?
Rezdôra on East 20th Street serves dinner until 11pm every night of the week. Tarallucci e Vino on East 18th Street also runs to 11pm, but only on Friday and Saturday, and Felice Flatiron on Fifth Avenue serves dinner until 11pm on those two nights as well.
Is anything in Gramercy open late on a Sunday?
Yes. Casa Mono, Rezdôra and Gramercy Tavern’s front room all serve until 11pm on Sunday, and Pete’s Tavern’s kitchen does too, with its bar open until 2am. Tarallucci e Vino and Union Square Cafe close at 10:30pm on Sunday, and Paul & Jimmy’s at 9pm.

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