Chef Daniel Boulud’s storied flagship, Restaurant DANIEL, now has a new landlord. SL Green has purchased the commercial condo that houses the Upper East Side dining room for $18.5 million, according to public records, picking up roughly 18,000 square feet of prime Park Avenue restaurant space while leaving the white-tablecloth operation in place for now. The move lands just as Boulud’s Dinex Group is busy rolling out new outposts overseas.
According to The Real Deal, the deal shows up in city filings as the sale of a commercial condo at 610 Park Avenue, also listed as 60 East 65th Street, the address long tied to Boulud’s Upper East Side flagship. The outlet noted it was among the top commercial trades recorded that day, with the space currently occupied by Restaurant DANIEL.
Traded pegs the retail condo at about 17,762 square feet and puts the sale at $18.5 million, or roughly $1,042 per square foot. PincusCo notes that the transaction closed on March 4 and was recorded on March 6 in public records.
Deal terms and company comments
The New York Post reports that as part of the sale, Dinex Group inked a 20-year lease with SL Green, effectively keeping Restaurant DANIEL in place under a long-term arrangement instead of owning its walls. Dinex chief executive Sébastien Silvestri told the paper that the deal helps the company zero in on its core restaurant business, while SL Green executive Brett Herschenfeld framed the acquisition as a way to deepen the firm’s Upper East Side footprint and extend its ongoing ventures with Boulud.
SL Green and Boulud's ongoing partnership
SL Green is not exactly new to the Boulud universe. The landlord has already teamed up with the chef on splashy projects at its marquee office towers, from Le Pavillon and Jōji at One Vanderbilt to La Tête d’Or at One Madison, a relationship the company highlighted in its own One Madison press materials. SL Green has promoted those restaurants as amenities designed to help lease office space and lure tenants who like their power lunches within elevator distance.
Boulud’s international push
The timing of the Park Avenue sale lines up with Dinex’s international expansion. Mandarin Oriental announced that Terrace Boulud, a partnership with Landmark, is slated to open in Hong Kong in early 2026. Across the pond, Supper Magazine reports that Café Boulud is expected to debut later in 2026 on the rooftop of the Waldorf Astoria London Admiralty Arch.
Public filings list the buyer as an SL Green-affiliated LLC, a structure that appears to free up capital for Dinex while handing SL Green a trophy tenant in a residential-heavy pocket of the Upper East Side. PincusCo identifies the purchasing entity as 610 Park Avenue Commercial Owner LLC. For now, at least, Restaurant DANIEL stays put at its longtime home at 60 East 65th Street.
