Menu Guide · Upper East Side · The Pierre
Perrine — Menu Guide
By Firoz Khan · FK Digital Media
At 2 East 61st Street, The Pierre's all-day restaurant does something the grander hotel rooms don't: it feeds you from morning to afternoon without ceremony. Breakfast is a serious affair, lunch is crisp French-American cooking, and the afternoon tea is one of the Upper East Side's best-kept rituals. Chef Ashfer Biju's menu carries quiet Indian touches — a masala omelet, a coronation chicken salad, a mango lassi — that set it apart from every other hotel dining room in the neighborhood. Below is our independent walkthrough with reported prices, plus what we'd order. Everything is written in our own words; prices are reported figures, not a copy of the menu.
At a glance
- Location
- 2 E 61st St, New York, NY 10065 (inside The Pierre)
- Cuisine
- French-American with Indian touches; serious breakfast
- Price level
- Breakfast/lunch reported $23–72; afternoon tea $125–$210
- Afternoon tea
- Reported from $125/person; seatings vary — confirm when booking
- Reservations
- Recommended, especially for tea; book via Resy
- Phone
- +1 (212) 940-8195
Breakfast
This is Perrine's strongest service — a full, classic hotel breakfast menu reported from $25 to $36, with the Pierre's own twists. The masala omelet and the corned beef hash are the two dishes you won't find done this well elsewhere on the block.
| Dish | Reported price |
|---|---|
| Steak & eggs — 6oz NY strip, fried eggs, hash browns | $36 |
| Corned beef hash — classic Pierre recipe, twin poached eggs | $31 |
| Bagel & lox — Catskills smoked salmon, condiments | $29 |
| Eggs Benedict — Canadian bacon or smoked salmon | $29 |
| Avocado toast with twin fried eggs and crispy capers | $29 |
| Ham & cheese omelet — French ham, Swiss | $29 |
| Masala omelet — rolled Indian omelet, tomato, cilantro, green chilies | $28 |
| Egg white omelet with spinach, tomato, asparagus | $28 |
| Fried egg rancheros with spicy tomato coulis, avocado | $28 |
| Ancient grains & eggs with mushrooms, kale, poached egg | $26 |
| Brioche French toast — cinnamon sugar, strawberry compote | $25 |
| The Pierre Bloody Mary | $18 |
| Mimosa | $16 |
| White peach bellini | $15 |
Lunch — salads, pasta & mains
Lunch salads run $24–44, pastas and flatbreads $23–34, and mains $29–72. The coronation chicken — a curry chicken salad created for Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in the 1950s — is the house legend.
| Dish | Reported price |
|---|---|
| Maine lobster salad — endives, radishes, green apple rémoulade | $44 |
| Black sea bass — seafood broth, fava beans, fines herbes | $38 |
| Cavatelli with chicken sausage, scallions, white wine | $34 |
| Roasted salmon — beluga lentils, gribiche, sorrel sauce | $34 |
| Seared tuna salad — kale, barley, pomegranate, poached egg | $32 |
| Linguine with white clam sauce, lemon, serrano chilies | $32 |
| Rainbow chard & goat cheese tart | $31 |
| Chicken paillard — arugula, artichokes, lemon vinaigrette | $31 |
| The Pierre burger — grass-fed beef, rémoulade, Rupert cheese, frites | $29 |
| Grilled shrimp salad — avocado, spiced lemon aïoli | $29 |
| Upstate farms roasted vegetables with barley and feta | $29 |
| Coronation chicken — curry chicken salad, raisins, herbs, country bread | $24 |
| Zucchini blossom flatbread on house-made naan | $23 |
| Steak frites with watercress salad | $49 |
| Dover sole, sauce meunière | $72 |
Sides run $9–12 (pommes frites, glazed carrots, spiced cauliflower, charred broccoli gratin), and there's a mango lassi at $9 — the Indian touch extends to the drinks.
Afternoon tea
Perrine's tea service is the sleeper hit of this list. Reported tiers: Traditional Afternoon Tea at $125 per person, the Pierre Afternoon Tea at $160 (adds champagne and Russian ossetra caviar), and the Golden Caviar Afternoon Tea at $210 (two glasses of champagne or a demi bottle plus golden ossetra), with a $75 menu for younger guests. Expect tea sandwiches, cranberry scones with Devonshire cream, and pastries from the hotel's pâtissiers. Reported service windows have varied (11am–4pm in some listings; fixed seatings in others) — confirm the current schedule when you book.
What we'd order
- Breakfast: the masala omelet — it's the one dish no other hotel room on this list serves.
- Lunch: the coronation chicken. History you can eat, at $24.
- The splurge: afternoon tea at the $160 tier — champagne and caviar in The Pierre is the full experience.
- The burger test: the Pierre burger is the benchmark for hotel burgers on the Upper East Side.
Planning your visit
- Tea needs a reservation — book on Resy and confirm the seating times, which have varied.
- Breakfast is walk-in friendly compared to the grander rooms — a good low-commitment first visit.
- Dress code is polished-casual; it's The Pierre, but Perrine is the relaxed sibling.
- Pair it with Central Park — the hotel sits two blocks from the park's southeast corner, perfect for a post-lunch walk.
About these prices
Prices above are reported as of October 2026, compiled from publicly reported menus and listings. Menus change seasonally and prices move — tea service times and tiers in particular should be confirmed at booking. Always verify current prices with the restaurant before visiting.