Frevo
Frevo’s dining room: a long chef’s counter with upholstered stools facing the open kitchen, under low warm light

Frevo

A gallery on West 8th Street. Dinner is behind the painting.

TOMA-L, Paper Boy: a figure built from torn paper, charcoal and paint over red, yellow and blue patterned wallpaper
TOMA-L
French, born 1975, Nantes
Paper Boy, 2025
Paper collage, charcoal and paint
150 × 100 cm
From the exhibition Wall Paper Boy. The door to the dining room is behind this work.

Sixteen seats at the counter, two tables beside it, and the kitchen in full view.

Chef Franco Sampogna in whites, sitting on the pass in Frevo’s kitchen
Franco Sampogna
Chef and co-founder
Trained at Guy Savoy and with Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athénée, Paris

Every course is built around its sauce.

Emulsions, jus, foams and condiments each have a job on the plate. One brings depth, another acidity, sweetness or brightness, and together they hold the dish together. Sometimes the sauce is the picture itself.

The technique is classical French. The influences are South American and Asian.

A bright green sauce with pink and white garnishes and violet flowers, in a stoneware bowl on dark velvet A small composed course on a lacquered red plate resting in folds of rust velvet Pieces of fish in a saffron-yellow sauce on a grey plate, set on velvet

Two friends, eighteen years

  1. 2008

    Franco, from Brazil, and Bernardo, from Portugal, meet in the South of France.

  2. 2010

    Franco cooks at Guy Savoy in Paris, then with Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athénée. Bernardo joins the Shangri-La and, later, David Toutain.

  3. 2016

    They move to New York to run Jema on Long Island, Franco in the kitchen and Bernardo in the room.

  4. 2019

    Frevo opens on 8th Street on May 17 with a team of five and a first show by TOMA-L. Three months later, The New York Times gives it two stars.

  5. 2022

    Frevo earns its first Michelin star.

  6. 2023

    Rockwell Group and L’Observatoire International redesign the dining room.

  7. 2025

    A fourth consecutive Michelin star, and Two Knives from The Best Chef Awards.

  8. 2026

    Wine Spectator’s Best of Award of Excellence for the second year running.

A curved leather banquette and walnut table in Frevo’s dining room, with champagne on ice

Take the whole place

For a full buyout, the gallery can be set up for your brand or your guests. They gather among the art, find the door, and sit down to dinner. Dior, Tiffany, Fendi, De Beers and Hennessy have all hosted here.

  • Full buyout, gallery and dining roomUp to 26 seated, or 40 for a reception
  • Private first seatingUp to 16 guests at the counter
  • Large party7 to 8 guests
  • Frevo at HomeA chef-led tasting menu for up to 14 guests
Plan an event

Book a seat at the counter

Reservations are on Tock. For parties of seven or eight, email us.

Reserve on Tock reservations@frevonyc.com
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