Rosa Mexicano moves Upper West Side restaurant to 12K SF at Empire Hotel – Commercial Observatory

The rumors can stop. Uptown institution Rosa Mexicano will stick around Lincoln Center to serve guacamole and margaritas after a night at the opera.

Only now, the 40-year-old Mexican restaurant will move from 61 Columbus Ave to the neighbor Empire Hotel, according to the owner’s broker Winick Realty Group.

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Rosa Mexicano signed a 15-year lease for 12,000 square meters on the entire floor of Joseph Chetrit and the Podolsky the family hotel TO 1889 Broadwayopposite the performing arts square and just above PJ Clarke‘SWinick said.

The asking rent was $1.5 million a year, a Winick spokesman said.

The restaurant chain opened on the Upper East Side in 1984 and now has three locations in Manhattan, plus six outposts across the country. according to its website.

But local Italian La Pecora Bianca set in motion a mystery about the fate of Rosa’s Lincoln Center location in June when revealed to them Manhattan Community Council 7 that he planned to take over the longtime Mexican restaurant space at the base of the condominium building at the corner of Columbus and West 62nd Street.

The fate of Rosa’s Upper West Side outpost remained unknown until I Love The Upper West Side reported last week that it will takes over the space inside the Empire Hotel that formerly housed Ed’s Chowder House. Its new home on the second floor of the 420-room hotel will include a private entrance on West 63rd Street, according to Winick.

“We’re excited to keep Rosa Mexicano in the neighborhood,” Winick’s said Jeff Winickwho represented the owner along with Yoel Gorjian.

“They will continue to serve as a beloved staple in the community they have been a part of for 25 years,” Winick added.

It’s unclear when Rosa Mexicano plans to reopen in the Empire Hotel, but the website West Side Rag reported that La Pecora Bianca is set to open at 61 West 62nd in the fall of 2025.

Cushman & Wakefield (CWK)his Neil Seth and Kenji Ota arranged the deal for Rosa Mexicano and declined to comment.

Abigail Nehring can be reached at [email protected].