Where to Eat & Drink During NYFW | The Ragtrader NYC
New York Fashion Week may take over runways across the city, but fashion has always had a home in the Garment District. Between shows, events, fittings, and after-parties, The Ragtrader offers a fitting place to eat, drink, and keep the night going, with Bo Peep downstairs and The Parlour Room right next door.
Located at 70 W 36th Street in Midtown Manhattan, The Ragtrader sits in the heart of the neighborhood that helped build New York’s fashion industry. For NYFW, that history makes it more than a convenient stop. It is a restaurant whose entire identity is rooted in the world of fashion.
The Ragtrader: Where Fashion Meets the Garment District
The Ragtrader takes its name from the "rag trade," a term long associated with the clothing and garment industry. That history carries throughout the restaurant, where the space pays tribute to the designers, makers, and workers who once filled the surrounding blocks.
Throughout The Ragtrader, fashion references are woven into the decor. Vintage sewing machines, dress forms, spools, textiles, and other nods to the garment industry give the restaurant a sense of place that feels especially appropriate during New York Fashion Week.
It is a restaurant designed around the history of its neighborhood rather than simply located within it.
For anyone searching for a restaurant during NYFW, The Ragtrader offers a setting that can take you from lunch between events to cocktails after a show or a full dinner before heading back out for the night. Its Midtown location also makes it an easy meeting point for groups coming from different parts of Manhattan.
The menu centers on approachable American dishes alongside wine, beer, and a cocktail program built for a proper night out. During a week when schedules can move quickly, The Ragtrader is the kind of place where you can settle in for dinner or simply meet over drinks before the next stop.
Head Downstairs to Bo Peep
The evening does not have to end after dinner.
Hidden beneath The Ragtrader is Bo Peep Cocktail & Highball Store, an intimate cocktail and piano bar that offers a completely different atmosphere without leaving the building.
Bo Peep combines the cocktail program of a speakeasy with the energy of a lively piano bar. Guests can settle into the red-lit room for cocktails and live music, and as the evening picks up, singing and dancing are very much part of the experience.
For NYFW, it is an easy transition from dinner upstairs to a late-night drink downstairs, especially when one cocktail inevitably turns into a few songs around the piano.
Step Next Door to The Parlour Room
For something more refined, The Parlour Room is located directly next door to The Ragtrader.
The interior feels elegant and transportive, with rich textures, dramatic lighting and carefully considered details throughout the space. One of its defining features is a monumental Italian glass and brass chandelier dating to circa 1975, setting the tone for a dining room that feels glamorous without losing its warmth.
The Parlour Room's polished interior makes it an ideal backdrop for NYFW dinners, cocktails, date nights or a more intimate gathering after a day of shows. Its extensive whiskey selection and cocktail program add another reason to linger at the bar.
Together, the three spaces give you three distinct ways to experience a night in Midtown: dinner surrounded by Garment District history at The Ragtrader, cocktails and live piano downstairs at Bo Peep, or an elegant evening next door at The Parlour Room.
Make the Garment District Part of Your NYFW Plans
Fashion Week is about more than what happens on the runway. It is the dinners afterward, the cocktails between events and the places where everyone ends up once the schedule is over.
In the heart of Manhattan's historic Garment District, The Ragtrader puts you directly into that story. Start with lunch, dinner or drinks at The Ragtrader, head downstairs for live music at Bo Peep, or step next door for cocktails and an elevated evening at The Parlour Room.
Planning something bigger? The Ragtrader, Bo Peep and The Parlour Room are also available for private events and celebrations, offering distinctive spaces for NYFW gatherings, brand events, dinners, cocktail receptions and other group occasions.