What It Costs to Get VIP Status at One of NYC’s Hottest Restaurants
Gjelina is working with hospitality platform Blackbird to give diners insider status.
House accounts will be fully effective when Gjelina reopens in New York in late spring.
Photographer: Trip Davis
If there’s one kind of restaurant proliferating in New York right now, it’s the kind where you have to be a member to walk in. Witness the cars lining up outside Major Food Group’s new $30,000 ZZ’s Club, which offers the world’s first private Carbone dining room. Then take in the crowds at Casa Cipriani downtown and Core midtown and note the popularity of the AmEx Black Card clubhouse Centurion New York.
Now, another of the city’s hottest new restaurants is embracing aspects of a members club. Gjelina, the Los Angeles transplant that launched to great fanfare in NYC in January 2023—only to close 30 days later due to a fire—will feature house accounts when it reopens this spring.