How to book Le Café Louis Vuitton

Le Café Louis Vuitton is the fashion house's first restaurant in the United States, run with Stephen Starr's STARR Restaurants on the fourth floor of the Louis Vuitton store at 6 East 57th Street^1,4. It opened on 15 November 2024³. The New York Times reported that this store is a stand-in while the brand renovates its flagship across the street, so the café may not be permanent³.

Christophe Bellanca, who holds a Michelin star for Essential by Christophe, opened the kitchen with pastry chef Mary George, formerly of Daniel^3,4. In May 2026 Kylian Goussot, a Nice-born chef trained in pastry who has worked at Hôtel Métropole Monte Carlo and Eden Rock St. Barths, took over as executive chef⁶. The cooking is guided by Arnaud Donckele and Maxime Frédéric, the chefs behind Louis Vuitton's restaurant in Saint-Tropez^1,4.

The menu is built around what the café calls "luxury snacking": familiar dishes reworked with a playful touch, many stamped with the Monogram^1,2. Signatures include a crisp Monogram waffle with caviar, truffle eggs with brioche soldiers, Monogram ravioli, crab 'Louis', lobster rolls and filet mignon, followed by Monogram-shaped entremets^1,3,4. It serves breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and an early dinner, with an à la carte menu alongside a prix-fixe "Louis Vuitton Culinary Journey"^1,5.

The room is designed like a home library, with hundreds of books on the shelves, seats for about 70 diners and a ceiling hung with hundreds of Louis Vuitton leather luggage tags^3,5. Tables are booked on Resy, where they are released 28 days ahead, and Wallpaper reported that the waitlist can grow past 1,000 people on a given day^2,5.