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In the 1961 cine “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Audrey Hepburn opined that “nothing absolute bad could happen” at the acclaimed Fifth Avenue adornment store. But, afresh again, she didn’t accept to delay in band two hours to absorb her croissant and coffee in the attendance of the shop’s sparkling jewels.
Fifty-six years afterwards Hepburn’s active affair babe Holly Golightly wolfed bottomward a croissant alfresco the shop’s windows, admirers can now adore their absolute own breakfast at Tiffany’s — inside, too.
That is, if they don’t die of ache first.
On Friday, Tiffany apparent its new Blue Box Cafe, offering, yes, coffee and croissants, as able-bodied as cafeteria and tea service. By the time the doors opened, at 10 a.m., there was a band bottomward the block.
“It ability be 40 minutes, it ability be 2 hours, but I’m activity in,” says Joe Rashbaum, a 45-year-old ad radio specialist, who says he rearranged his absolute anniversary to banquet at the new spot. Rashbaum aboriginal saw the blur aback he was 9 and has aback dreamed of re-creating its archetypal breakfast scene.
“It’s one of my Top 10 brazier account items,” says the Marlton, NJ, resident. “I’ve been researching how to do it for years.”
The Blue Box Cafe is Tiffany’s aboriginal restaurant, timed to the absolution of the brand’s band of “everyday objects,” including a $350 gold bittersweet crazy harbinger and a $1,500 sterling-silver “coffee can.” According to the columnist release, the cafe’s “playful and abrupt touches sit accordingly alongside affected finishes like herringbone marble and amazonite stone, absorption the new Home & Accessories collection’s accent on accustomed luxury.”
Your morning joe at Tiffany’s will amount you far added than Holly Golightly’s street-cart fare: breakfast will set you aback $29.
The restaurant’s walls are corrective Tiffany’s signature robin’s-egg-blue hue and a window overlooks Central Park. Servers in bow ties and brittle white shirts coast about the tiny jewel-box-like amplitude accustomed precious, modernist color-blocked ceramics — and admonishing anyone they accept has ventured accomplished the (actual) clover braiding advanced of their turn.
Speaking of luxury, your morning joe at Tiffany’s will amount you far added than Holly Golightly’s street-cart fare. Breakfast will set you aback $29, for coffee, croissant and your best of avocado toast, truffle eggs, a smoked-salmon-and-bagel assemblage or buttermilk waffles. If you’re activity flush, a two-course cafeteria is $39 and the tea service, which comes with a alternative of feel sandwiches, costs $49.
But for admirers of the film, it’s all about the experience. “I achievement it will be like a movie,” says Phoebe Kuo, a 25-year-old Ditmas Park resident, who works in politics. “I appetite to sit there and feel like Holly Golightly, award love, adequate my activity and adequate New York.”
Open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Sunday, apex to 4:30 p.m. No reservations. Blue Box Cafe, 727 Fifth Ave.; 212-605-4270.
