{"id":160622,"date":"2026-03-11T18:55:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:55:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:55:36","slug":"bartolo-feels-like-old-manhattan-thats-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160622\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartolo Feels Like Old Manhattan. That\u2019s the Point."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">West Village Basque restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/ny.eater.com\/venue\/909471\/bartolo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bartolo<\/a> has only been open for a few months, but still, it feels like it\u2019s been part of the neighborhood for decades, harkening back to the 1920s through 1940s when Spanish-by-way-of-Spain restaurants were flourishing in Manhattan. It\u2019s where chef Ryan Bartlow highlights old-world tastes in these new-world times, which means truly Spanish food, albeit at high prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">On Mondays, Bartolo is an industry hangout, particularly at the bar, which is reserved for walk-ins. Sometimes, Bartlow will grab a stool himself \u2014 during my visit, he was there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The restaurant offers a variety of sherries from vineyards like Bodegas del Rio (the manzanilla was softly salty) and Bodegas Luis P\u00e9rez (a deeper one).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The space is very tight and cozy. Squeeze past the bar to get to the two dining rooms; the one on the left is lined with draped white fabrics and seems better suited for conversations; the one on the right has red walls and seems more lively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph n2hx75i _1knl15h1 _1knl15h0 cej01i1\">The bathroom off the bar is very, very, very tiny. Opt for the other one, which is slightly bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Village Basque restaurant Bartolo has only been open for a few months, but still, it feels like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[17863,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-160622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-dining-reports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}