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Little Prince is getting a grown-up wardrobe. Restaurateur Cobi Levy is turning his former SoHo restaurant at 199 Prince Street into ROMY, an intimate steakhouse scheduled to officially open next Tuesday, September 29.
Designer Rafael de Cárdenas has redone the room in oxblood and black lacquer, with burled wood, dark marble, bronze and artwork by George Condo. (Ordering a Martini here might briefly make you feel qualified to own a yacht.)
Chef Lucrezia Stella, whose background includes her family’s restaurants in Rome and a Michelin-starred kitchen on the Amalfi Coast, is giving the steakhouse menu room to roam. You can start with Kumamoto oysters and a cucumber–green apple mignonette, tuna tartare with gochujang and pineapple or hamachi with leche de tigre, lemongrass and plum. For a full steakhouse entrance, the Kaluga caviar service comes with onion-chive dip and housemade potato chips for $150.
The main event includes a 12-ounce Niman Ranch New York strip au poivre, a 20-ounce Westholme Farms Wagyu ribeye and a dry-aged Snake River Farms Wagyu porterhouse. Steak skeptics have options, too: there's halibut with blood orange, lobster with sage-lemon butter and bucatini with San Marzano tomatoes and aged Parmesan. Sides run from thick-cut fries to broccolini with preserved-lemon harissa.
The bar has its own restaurant pedigree. Miroo Kim, formerly of Atomix, is behind cocktails including a Brown Butter Carajillo and a Carrot Margarita. Adam Waddell of Eleven Madison Park and Spencer Choi-Schagrin of Jean-Georges lead the wine program.
ROMY follows several Levy projects, including Lola Taverna and Cucina Alba. For anyone who remembers Little Prince, the address will be familiar, but the caviar-topped potato chips may require a fresh introduction.