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Robert De Niro's celeb-loved restaurant closes it doors after 35 years
Mar 3, 2025
Robert De Niro's legendary New York City restaurant Tribeca Grill closed last night after hosting celebrities including Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lopez and Paul McCartney for 35 years.
Located on Greenwich Street in the heart of the Tribeca neighbourhood in Lower Manhattan, Tribeca Grill was opened in 1990 by De Niro, 81, and restaurateur Drew Nieporent, 69.
Other partners involved when the restaurant first opened included famous faces Sean Penn, Bill Murray, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ed Harris and Christopher Walken.
Other famous faces who ate at the grill during it's three and a half decades, include Naomi Campbell, Billy Crystal, Mick Jagger, and Paul McCartney.
Even Nelson Mandela attended a dinner there when he was in the area to be honoured by the UN.
It was De Niro who approached seasoned restauranteur Nieporent - who already had one dining spot in Tribeca - to ask if he wanted to open another one.
De Niro lived just a few blocks away from Nieporent's three-star eatery called Montrachet.
He explained how the actor would come in, and sit 'with his back to the room', at the furthest table.
According to Nieporent, the Raging Bull star was then, and remains now, 'a man of very few words'.
Nieporent told the Times that after the actor asked him about opening a place together, the two of them - accompanied by De Niro's then girlfriend model Toukie Smith - went to look at the building the Taxi Driver star was thinking of buying.
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