Midtown South, one of Manhattan’s hottest real estate markets, is getting a new watering hole.
Stout, an Irish pub grub spot with locations on West 33rd Street and in the Financial District, has leased a space at 100 Park Ave., a glass and steel tower at 41st Street.
The new two-story pub, in the shadow of Grand Central Terminal, is around 8,500 square feet. It will serve 20 beers on tap and more than 100 in bottles, listed by country.
“Midtown South has a shortage of places to go after work. This will help fill that gap,” said Jeffrey Roseman, a broker with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, who repped the landlord.
Office rent has spiked in this neighborhood as the vacancy rate declines — leaving a growing young tech population hungry for new dining and drinking options.
If you’re fishing for seafood and celebrities in an outdoor environment, Catch, at 21 Ninth Ave. in the Meatpacking District, is opening Catch Roof, its 870-square-foot rooftop for outdoor dining.
The outdoor space, open seven days a week, will seat 80 people. A lounge menu will serve Catch’s signature rolls and more. The executive chef is Hung Huynh, who won “Top Chef”’s season three, in 2007. He is also executive chef at Catch Miami and The General.
WE HEAR … that Rouge Tomate, the Michelin-starred, modern American restaurant in Midtown, which emphasizes environmentally conscious nutrition, will launch its fourth annual Rouge Tomate Cart in Central Park Monday at East 64th Street and Fifth Avenue, outside the entrance to the zoo.
The cart features whole grains and “sustainable responsibly raised proteins.” Chef Jeremy Bearman, whose team includes an in-house nutritionist, designed a menu that includes the Red Burger, Moroccan Turkey Burger and Italian Chicken, with chicken-fennel sausage, rhubarb mostarda and charred pickled fennel served on a whole wheat bun.
Cookies include rhubarb oatmeal, blueberry-coconut and chocolate-banana, as well as fresh juices and flavored waters including rhubarb lemonade and clementine-tarragon water, plus $14 soup/sandwich/drink lunch boxes and a $9 kids’ “lunch pail,” perfect to take into the park.