🐈‍⬛ Catwalk: The Meatpacking District

I walk the hellish catwalk runway at the hot new restaurant that the New York Times calls "cruel theater in the Meatpacking District."

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If you haven’t heard about Catwalk, New York’s hottest new restaurant, then the only thing you need to know is that every last guest, even the owners, need to walk into the restaurant along a modeling runway.

This hellish plank stretches above two very, very long parallel cocktail bars. The bar crowd exists to evaluate the incoming. The New York Times calls it “cruel theater in the Meatpacking District.”

This walk immortalizes the famous and unknown alike. In the upstairs holding area bar you wait and pray to be allowed downstairs (there are no reservations at Catwalk) and you watch the historical best of the best on jumbo-scale screens.

In the twelve weeks since they’ve opened, there are already some very famous patrons in those videos. With the single exception of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, guests always walk across alone, music blaring.

The joke is that you know you’ve made it when they ask you to sign a release.

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