| Wallsé | |
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 Wallsé in April 2024 | |
 Interactive map of Wallsé | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 2000 (2000) |
| Chef | Kurt Gutenbrunner |
| Food type | Austrian Cuisine, European Cuisine |
| Location | 344 West 11th Street, New York City, New York, 10014, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°44′7.5″N74°0′29.5″W / 40.735417°N 74.008194°W /40.735417; -74.008194 |
| Reservations | Resy |
| Website | wallse |
Wallsé is a restaurant in New York City. The restaurant serves Austrian cuisine.[1]
Kurt Gutenbrunner opened Wallsé in 2000.[2] Before opening Wallsé, Gutenbrunner was the executive chef atBouley.[3] In 2011, Gutenbrunner toldEater that a living fish was stolen from the vase in which it lived in Wallsé's bathroom.[4] The culprit was never identified.[4] Wallsè Next Door, a smaller "sister" location, is near Wallsé.[5]
The restaurant uses chairs made byThonet.[2] A portrait of Gutenbrunner byJulian Schnabel hangs in the restaurant.[1]
The restaurant received a positive review fromAmanda Hesser, published inThe New York Times, in 2004, awarding the restaurant two out of four possible stars.[3][6] Hesser praised the restaurant as "assured and unfettered".[3] Hesser also praised its "neighborhood demeanor" and Gutenbrunner's resistance to using ingredients such as "foam" and "powdered kumquat" and the techniques of chefs such asFerran Adrià andThomas Keller.[3]
In 2017Pete Wells gave the restaurant a positive review, also published inThe New York Times.[6] He awarded the restaurant one of four possible stars, a rating of "Good".[6] Wells contrasted his visits to the restaurant to write the review unfavorably to his past experiences, but noted that it "wouldn’t take much to pull the lines taut".[6] Wells praised the restaurant's "Old World charm and grown-up civility".[6]
The restaurant had a single Michelin star, which it was first awarded in 2006,[7] and which it lost in 2022.[8]