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Le Dive Brings Parisian Café Culture to Manhattan's Dimes Square

New York's trendiest neighborhood embraces a Paris-meets-Lower Manhattan sensibility at Le Dive.

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Photography by Teddy Wolff

Nestled in the middle of the ever-hip Lower East Side enclave known as Dimes Square, a new bar is blending equal parts Parisian cocktail café with effortlessly cool twentysomethings and just the right amount of New York attitude. Le Dive is exactly what it sounds like: a somewhat French-inspired cafe and bar that’s drawing in everyone downtown. The space is unmistakably New York—something owner Jon Neidich knows how to do flawlessly in any form, as evidenced by his peer restaurants with Golden Age Hospitality, like The Nines and Deux Chats—but the indoor-outdoor dining room, lacquered cafe tables, and guests sitting streetside peering at cigarettes through sunglasses are reminiscent of Paris’ Marais district. 

 

“I’ve always been drawn to Parisian tabacs—they function as neighborhood cornerstones, where locals of all ages come together to drink and eat throughout the day and night,” says Neidich. “With Le Dive, I set out to bring the best of Paris’s old and new cafe culture to New York.”

 

From its post at 37 Canal Street, the bar is attracting everyone from Instagrammers looking to make the most of the way natural sunlight shines through a glass of red wine to the chicer couples looking for a spot to grab a cocktail before a movie at Metrograph or dinner at Kiki’s. And, typical for Golden Age Hospitality hitmaker spots across the city, the bar only accepts walk-ins, meaning the in-the-know regulars are already establishing themselves. If you can’t tell whether those loitering outside are waiting for a table or just a group of cool kids hanging out, that’s the point.

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