{"id":1692695,"date":"2026-09-15T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/observer.com\/?p=1692695"},"modified":"2026-09-15T14:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:55:42","slug":"cafe-charmant-nyc-restaurant-opening-west-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/observer.com\/2026\/09\/cafe-charmant-nyc-restaurant-opening-west-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Remm’s Cafe Charmant Brings a Worldlier Brasserie to the West Village"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cafe Charmant has landed in the West Village. Nick Johnson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think the most exciting thing you can do is re-envision classic formatting in a way that has real perspective and real depth,\u201d chef Jake Tyler Brodsky tells Observer.<\/span><\/p>\n

At <\/span>Cafe Charmant,<\/span><\/a> which Eugene Remm, Tilman Fertitta and Catch Hospitality Group are opening with Brodsky in the West Village<\/a> on Tuesday, September 15, the goal is to create a different kind of brasserie. Remm has been to Keith McNally\u2019s Pastis hundreds of times, but he wants Cafe Charmant to be \u201cnothing like Pastis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPastis is phenomenal, and it already exists,\u201d Remm tells Observer. \u201cThe worst thing we could have done is just create Pastis on Bleecker Street. It would have been my nightmare. And then this conversation would come with some rolling eyes and be like, \u2018OK, so you just took Pastis, put it in this cool place, put your little spin on it, and that\u2019s cute. Congratulations.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

So Brodsky, a native New Yorker and former boxer who cooked at Eleven Madison Park and then ran the kitchen at Palm Heights in Grand Cayman, is delivering a globally inspired and free-spirited coastal take on brasserie cuisine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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