{"id":442911,"date":"2025-12-12T18:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/442911\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:56:32","slug":"an-eclectic-90s-era-cafe-scales-up-to-serve-dinner-in-columbus-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/442911\/","title":{"rendered":"An Eclectic \u201890s-Era Cafe Scales Up to Serve Dinner in Columbus Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegreydog.com\/location\/unnamed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Grey Dog,<\/a> which brothers Dave Ethan and Pete Adrian <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/2013\/7\/22\/6398723\/heres-proof-of-grey-dogs-return-to-carmine-street\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opened in 1996 <\/a>in the West Village, started as an eclectic coffee shop and has now made its way to an all-day, 75-seat location in Columbus Circle. The <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/news\/405657\/boro-brine-open-brooklyn-seafood-restaurant-williamsburg-here-and-there-closed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newest restaurant<\/a> \u2014 one of six locations \u2014 debuted this past week, at 304 West 56th Street, near Eighth Avenue. Other locations have gradually expanded past lattes and muffins, but this one leans hardest into dinner with steak frites, grilled salmon, and mac and cheese with fried chicken, plus a cocktail list that riffs on 1990s and 2000s classics. The space still looks like a Grey Dog, Ethan says, with carved tables made by Adrian, bike wheels with license plates, warm lighting. He calls it \u201ca full transition from when we were just a coffee shop,\u201d and says opening here has turned into \u201cthis crazy homecoming\u201d as former NYU regulars now living uptown come in with their kids and claim it as \u201cour Grey Dog.\u201d It\u2019s open all day, from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Three last-minute gift options<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">Still scrambling for a holiday present? Coffee people can head to <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeeprojectny.com\/classes\/list\/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=19800010787&amp;gbraid=0AAAAApQ4gv7Zz2rRPqjioOmEJCuTZUlDJ&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAl-_JBhBjEiwAn3rN7dGMAZa-SrD1crS85dTuJEmmZ5kZajGY7QiOMs8PxvtCm30Gx6-IWBoC2oYQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coffee Project<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSF2-cYkT-W\/?hl=en&amp;img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in-store tastings <\/a>of \u201cA Year in Coffee,\u201d a limited-edition 2025 box set of four blends; the gift set runs $55 and will be on hand at mini holiday markets <a href=\"https:\/\/coffeeprojectnyshop.square.site\/product\/-a-year-in-coffee-seasonal-box-set\/42LSIOXALPIUVB7KB35PRUCD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">or online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">For an experience gift, the internationally focused League of Kitchens sells <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leagueofkitchens.com\/cooking-classes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small-group cooking classes<\/a> with options like full-day, hands-on workshops and shorter evening classes from different culinary traditions (South Asian, Eastern European, or Latin American), with class formats and prices listed online.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grey Dog, which brothers Dave Ethan and Pete Adrian opened in 1996 in the West Village, started&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":442912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4991,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-442911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-intel","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115708126034103478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}