A gem in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, Baretto at Fasano Restaurant has brought the rich culture of Brazilian nightlife to New York through an elegant new cocktail and jazz lounge.

This past week, Fasano welcomed guests back to Baretto New York, an iconic live-music destination brought to New York by way of São Paulo, Brazil. Perched above the Fasano restaurant.

Fasano hails from Brazil and the owners took over the (second) Four Seasons restaurant with a far more romantic flourish with marble, exquisite new furniture, spacious tables and antiques.

Take the elevator up from Fasano, which the New York Times refers to as “expense-account Northern Italian”—proving that the clientele is still out there—to the Brazilian outpost Baretto.

It appears we are entering a new era of fine dining alla Italiana in New York, while the rest of the country wallows in cookie-cutter trattoria-dom. The first wave of upscale ristorante began in the late 1960s, at beautiful midtown dining rooms like Il Nido, Orsini’s and Parioli Romanissimo, fueled by unlimited expense accounts and a sense of la dolce vita.

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In 2016, the Brazilian Modernist Isay Weinfeld audaciously ushered in a new era for New York’s famous power lunch haven, the landmarked Four Seasons Restaurant, which exited its famous Philip Johnson–conceived environs inside Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building.

Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld recently completed the design of Fasano Restaurant, a new Italian eatery in New York.

With a laundry list of recognizable faces taking their seats in the main dining room below, Silvia Tcherassi gave dinner guests a first look at the upper reaches of the Fasano Restaurant in the newly-opened eatery’s well-appointed private dining room.

Noted Brazilian restaurateur Gero Fasano has taken over the closed second incarnation of the Four Seasons Grill Room and retained much of the muted, elegant décor in the dining room.