It's surprising that the extravagant interior of a restaurant that hasn't been open in more than ten years is there at all, but it looks as though Maxim's is finally moving out of its old space. According to Eater, the interior is being taken apart and will be sold to make room for renovations.
The restaurant closed in 2000, as Eater mentions, a year after critic William Grimes alluded to its name bearing more heft than anything the restaurant itself could deliver. The reason for the sudden selling is due to the building that the restaurant occupies, formerly a hotel, having been sold. It will soon become a residential building, clearly with no need for the likes of an aged eatery that outlived its usefulness 11 years ago.
Continue reading at Eater for more on Maxim's.
Maxim's: 680 Madison Ave., bet. 61st & 62nd Sts.
