| Wallsé | |
| Chef: | Kurt Gutenbrunner |
| Food-Type: | Austrian Cuisine, European Cuisine |
| Street-Address: | 344 West 11th Street |
| City: | New York City |
| State: | New York |
| Postcode: | 10014 |
| Country: | United States |
Wallsé is a restaurant in New York City. The restaurant serves Austrian cuisine.[1]
Kurt Gutenbrunner opened Wallsé in 2000.[2] Before opening Wallsé, Gutenbrunner was the executive chef at Bouley.[3] In 2011, Gutenbrunner told Eater that a living fish was stolen from the vase in which it lived in Wallsé's bathroom.[4] The culprit was never identified.[4] Wallsè Next Door, a smaller "sister" location, is near Wallsé.[5]
The restaurant uses chairs made by Thonet.[2] A portrait of Gutenbrunner by Julian Schnabel hangs in the restaurant.[1]
The restaurant received a positive review from Amanda Hesser, published in The New York Times, in 2004, awarding the restaurant two out of four possible stars.[3] Hesser praised the restaurant as "assured and unfettered".[3] Hesser also praised its "neighborhood demeanor" and Gutenbrunner's resistance to using ingredients such as "foam" and "powdered kumquat" and the techniques of chefs such as Ferran Adrià and Thomas Keller.[3]
In 2017 Pete Wells gave the restaurant a positive review, also published in The New York Times.[6] He awarded the restaurant one of four possible stars, a rating of "Good".[6] Wells contrasted his visits to the restaurant to write the review unfavorably to his past experiences, but noted that it "wouldn’t take much to pull the lines taut".[6] Wells praised the restaurant's "Old World charm and grown-up civility".[6]
The restaurant had a single Michelin star, which it was first awarded in 2006,[7] and which it lost in 2022.[8]