A worker clearing out the old Fratelli space last month.
Maison Kayser, a French bakery known for a wide selection of fresh-baked breads and prepared foods, is set to open on the corner of 76th street and Broadway in the former home of Fratelli la Bufala.
The bakery already has a few other locations in the city, including spots on the Upper East Side, midtown and in the Flatiron. They sell sandwiches, cheese and charcuterie plates and salads. Like other locations, it will likely have a dining area and a bakery case.
Check out the menu here.
Harriet, who sent in the tip, tells us workers expect it to open at the end of the summer.
C’est formidable de venir dans Notre quartier
Dommage pour Notre silhouette , impossible de
Resister a votre pain aux financiers etc etc
Bravo
Is that not right down the block from the bakery that opened in the old Nicks space ?
Yes it is…but the new French bakery where Big Nick’s used to be sells baked goods only and coffee and tea. Nice addition to the neighborhood but wouldn’t seem to compete with the place opening on the corner of 76th and Broadway.
yup near old Nicks.
Mayson Keiser is a classy joint. there is one at 21st and Bway.
very nice with outdoor seating.
BUT , yup a chain nevertheless….
good luck to them, the last place must have lost thier shirts.
Great addition to the neighborhood. Their breads are outstanding.
Something French moves into the UWS = Yeah!
Something “midwest America” moves in to the UWS = Yuck!
Sigh…just what the neighborhood needs–a $15 sandwich shop. Yes, it’s high quality. But I would give anything to get Niko’s back. That was a family-friendly restaurant with reasonably priced food.
We wish all you newcomers good luck. Also, still waiting to learn where Big Nicks is going to relocate along with the best burgers and ambience New York has to offer.
Well it makes perfect sense. How else to help those who paid $2 million for their apartments across the street but to offer them $20 sandwiches? Now they’ll be sure they bought in the right neighborhood.
The prices don’t seem that different than Le Pain Quotidien which has had 4 stores on the UWS for years in addition to another 16 or so other locations in Manhattan that have done quite well. Apparently there is a strong market for this type of restaurant/bakery in NYC. The harsh reality is that you can’t pay the rents around here unless you charge those kind of prices.
Their stuff is really good and I’ve been to their bakeries in France. I hope it goes well here too!
great news, if you ask me! they’re making some of the best breads in all of manhattan right now. the rapid rate of expansion is a concern, but here’s hoping for the best.
Maison Kayser has phenomenal bread. I’d been going across town to the UES to get it for a while before they opened on the west side in Columbus Circle.
I’ll be happy to welcome them into the neighborhood. And for those complaining about “$20 sandwiches”, the regular bread prices are very reasonable for a phenomenal product made with much care – all of the bread is made on the premises.
We already have a variety of good breads in Citarella, across the street, and recently, Mille Feuille opened up, offering somewhat similar breads and pastries (though no lunches, etc.) and little space for table-sitting. And then, there a little pastry shop tucked away between 79 and 78 on Broadway, again, very little table space and no meals. Not sure this French bread and pastry shop, good though it is, will survive. C’est un avenir encore à voir!
So I spoke to someone today who seemed to be the general contractor and he said it would be more like 16 weeks (around November) before they’d open. That definitely sounds more realistic than by the end of the summer!
#cantwait
Good thing it’s opening NOT at the end of summer but possibly in November, as we’ll all need the time to take crash courses in French so that we might read a menu which includes:
(Une) TARTINE CHEVRE & FIGUES
(Deux) PENNE AU BLE COMPLET
et
(Trois)FRISEE AUX LARDONS
But it should be a great place for all the UWS nouvelle arrivee Croque Monsieurs et Croque Madames to part with yet more of their disposable revenu…IF they can tolerate being seen on oh-so-bourgeois Broadway rather than tres-trendy Columbus.
😉
Stan doesn’t know French?! Wow, I thought all the cranky, elderly folks on the UWS considered that knowledge a baseline requirement for living the enlightened, rent-controlled, bike-hating life 🙂
Re: “enlightened”
MAIS, OUI !
Re: “bike-hating”
MAIS, OUI-OUI !!
Re: “rent-controlled”
MAIS, I WISH !!
yeah, that Google_Translate doesn’t always work so good !!
🙂
Stan —
Not to worry! Just ask one of the twentysomethings on line to get something to go with that triple-whip left-handed soy double creme latte’ to use his or her super-phone to translate the menu for you.
Or, as an alternative, just decide how much this month’s budget can bear for lunch today — I’m sure the *prices* will be in good ol’ U-S-of-A dollars — and hand that amount over to the gendarme behind the counter. Ask for whatever you can get for that amount and en-JOI!
Cato:
Re: “… use his or her super-phone to translate the menu for you.”
Great idea, but afraid it will not work as s(he) would be loathe to yield her/his spacephone as s(he) would be too busy taking selfies for Instagram, Pinterest, LookaMe, etc. etc. etc.
(to quote Yul Brynner in The King and I)
you guys sound a little cranky about those youngsters!
i know you are joking…….would you trade places with them if you could?
and be young again? in 2014…..