UES Wine Bar With Michelin Pedigree Closes After Less Than A Year

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A Michelin-star winning chef is calling it quits on the Upper East Side.

The wine bar and restaurant Charc, located on East 84th Street between First and Second avenues, has closed and a "for rent" sign has popped up in the business' window. The eatery was opened in November of 2017 by Danny Brown, whose Danny Brown Wine Bar & Kitchen received a Michelin star in 2011.

Brown told Eater New York, which first reported on the closure, that the location was wrong from the outset.

"Once Thanksgiving hits, the streets are totally empty," Brown told the publication. "It probably wouldn’t have been that way 30 years ago."

Brown opened and closed a restaurant called X Bar Bistro in the small East 84th Street space before introducing Charc. Despite having "two cracks" at the location, business never picked up, Brown told Eater.

Some of Charc's signature menu items included a chef's salad with speck, coppa, la tur, gem lettuce, endive, radicchio, olive oil, lemon and togarashi and a spaghetti "carbonara" with crème fraîche, smoked salmon, egg yolk and caviar, according to the restaurant's old website and social media pages.

It's unclear what kind of business will open in the East 84th Street space, but the "for rent" sign is marketing the space for use as a restaurant or bar.

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