#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 you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces — the ones that earn this rank — are typically the first to sell out.