![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The legendary restaurant 21, the last establishment in Manhattan to require a tie, dropped that rule last year.īeyond a doubt, beginning in the mid- to late 1960s, a seismic transformation occurred in American social norms that brought about, among many other changes, a great down-dressing that eventually reached from the bottom to the top rung of the cultural and economic ladder. Only 12 restaurants in Manhattan still require a jacket for male diners, according to. If a man is wearing nice-looking jeans and a button-down shirt, we won’t turn them away, but they’ll be seated at one of the lower tables,” said McCracken. Obviously, if a couple comes in dressed to the nines, they’ll get a table on a higher tier. Realistically, “we would like men to wear jackets, but it’s not required. We would like them to, but if someone shows up and looks nice without a jacket, of course we’ll seat them.”ĭress for Chez Philippe, says the website for The Peabody hotel, “is a minimum of business casual.” That means, said Chez’s manager and sommelier Krista McCracken, “no jeans, no flip-flops, no shorts, no T-shirts.” Now we say ‘business casual’ and hope that men will wear a jacket. “When we first opened (in January 1997) we requested that men wear jackets and ties, not required, but requested. “It’s not like the old days,” said Erling Jensen, executive chef and owner of his eponymous restaurant. Chefs used to wear freshly starched and pressed whites and tall toques now they sport shorts, Crocs and tattoos.Įven at what are arguably the city’s most expensive restaurants – Erling Jensen and Chez Philippe – there’s some wiggle room when it comes to enforcing a dress code. Waiters used to don tuxedos now they wear black T-shirts. People used to dress up to travel on airlines now they wear pajamas. Not that men are required to look like Don Draper when dining out nor women to wear cocktail dresses, but things have changed radically in the realms of fine dining, and indeed, any kind of dining, over the past 20 or 30 years, coincident with a great sea-change in American culture. Hey, pal, when was the last time you wore a tie to eat at a restaurant? A suit? A jacket? Consented to take off your baseball cap? ![]()
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