Matthew Goodrich and his team at local design studio Goodrich created 51 distinct schematic plans for New York restaurant Ci Siamo before he and Danny Meyer, founder and CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG), were fully content with the warm and engaging layout.

Ci Siamo—which translates to “here we are” in Italian—is the newest addition to the USHG empire, “a sweeping, winding space,” Meyer explains, in the budding mixed-use Manhattan West development near the Lincoln Tunnel. Like his classic Union Square Cafe and Gramercy Tavern, Meyer took a chance on developing a new area of the city with Ci Siamo, his first restaurant in New York since 2018.