Seminars and company events
Rosie O'Grady's hosts conferences, board dinners, product launches, networking receptions and holiday parties for up to 500 guests standing in a full buyout, across ten event spaces. The Irish pub and restaurant has operated since 1974 at 148 West 51st Street, in Manhattan's Theater District, two blocks from Times Square.
For daytime sessions, the Manhattan Manor seats 160 theater-style and the Main Hall 150, and the events team sets up theater layouts for presentations and all-day conferences. Board dinners fit the Broadway Room, which seats 40, or the Side Bar, which has a private dining room behind the bar. Holiday parties for a whole office can be a seated dinner, a cocktail reception or a buffet. A ground-floor buyout takes 350 guests standing, the left side of the ground floor 275, and the full venue 500.
Weddings and receptions
The venue sells wedding ceremonies and receptions in the Manhattan Manor, with the Broadway Room for a smaller dinner. Rehearsal dinners, engagement parties, birthdays, anniversaries and sweet sixteens are also part of the private events offer.
Rooms and capacities
The Manhattan Manor is the largest room, 2,520 square feet with arched windows, white wainscoting, a gold ceiling and a long oak floor. It holds 150 for cocktails, 130 seated and 110 for a buffet. The Main Hall takes 200 standing and 150 seated, or 220 standing when joined with the Side Bar. The Main Bar holds 130 for a cocktail reception. The Broadway Room, 760 square feet with round tables and framed city prints, takes 70 standing and 60 theater-style. The Taft Bar, 480 square feet with green leather and gold palm-leaf walls, is a standing room for 45. The Side Bar takes 35 for cocktails or 40 seated, 24 of them at long tables.
Catering
All food and drink come from the house. For seated dinners, the events team builds a menu with the host. Cocktail receptions run on platters, each sized for ten guests, from grazing boards and seafood to crudités, charcuterie, cheese and flatbreads. Buffets are served in the Manhattan Manor and the Broadway Room. The bar pours signature and classic cocktails, twelve draft beers and wines by the glass. The ground-floor restaurant serves steaks, seafood and a gastropub menu. Upstairs, RÓG serves New American cooking with an Irish influence under executive chef Michael Brogan. For guests heading to a show, the kitchen paces the meal around curtain time.
History and setting
Rosie O'Grady's has served Midtown theatergoers and office crowds for five decades. Rockefeller Center is a short walk away, and Broadway theaters are a few minutes on foot, which makes the venue a practical base before or after a show.
Getting there
The venue sits on West 51st Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. The 47-50 Sts-Rockefeller Center subway station is the closest major stop, and LaGuardia is the nearest airport.
