#8 in Top 20 New York for Business · ★★★★★
Baccarat Hotel New York
Across from MoMA, French-grandeur boardrooms, crystal everything, the optics-mattered meeting.
Across from MoMA, French-grandeur boardrooms, crystal everything, the optics-mattered meeting.
"Across from MoMA, French-grandeur boardrooms, crystal everything, the optics-mattered meeting."
Baccarat Hotel opened in 2015 across 53rd Street from the Museum of Modern Art, and the Baccarat crystal-house's Manhattan flagship was built specifically as a positioning hotel, the rooms, the lobby, the bar are all engineered to look like the cover of a luxury magazine, and the operating model leans into that. Sixty-five rooms and 49 suites, all with desk-grade workspace, all with Lalique-and-Baccarat crystal interiors. The Grand Salon (the lobby) is the most-photographed hotel public room in Manhattan; the Bar at Baccarat is the after-meeting room of choice for the client who needs to be impressed. Chevalier (the in-house restaurant) is one of the few credible French dining rooms in midtown. The hotel's 17,000-square-foot spa runs the only full-Baccarat-branded treatment menu in the world. Baccarat is the right pick for the business trip where the optics of the meeting matter, the European-headquartered law firm meeting, the IPO roadshow first-night dinner, the Sotheby's-adjacent client. The rooms are smaller than the Aman or Mark but the public-spaces calibre is unmatched.
Baccarat Suite (one-bedroom flagship) or Petite Suite for the entry-level suite product.
Pre-book Chevalier private dining room for the client dinner, the corner room with the crystal chandelier is the photographed asset. The Bar at Baccarat 5pm is the after-meeting room; the staff knows the recurring executives and table-allocations work on hospitality memory.
Baccarat Hotel New York sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in New York for Business list. It scored an aggregate 9.7/10 across the three editorial criteria, competitive against the field but, on business-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same New York neighbourhood, see Midtown, Across from MoMA and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If the dates are locked in, secure the room around the three-month mark. Rooms with the coveted orientation are claimed first, while popular-month availability runs out months in advance. Suites with a private plunge pool or terrace, the very rooms behind this rank, usually vanish first.
A ranked shortlist, a special offer worth booking, and the overpriced stay to skip. Straight from the editors.