Gotham Bar and Grill is a New American restaurant located at 12 East 12th Street (between Fifth Avenue and University Place), in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City. It opened in 1984. It was founded in 1984 by Jerome Kretchmer, Jeff Bliss, Richard and Robert Rathe who hired American chef Alfred Portale, one of the founders of New American cuisine, who left in fall of 2019. The restaurant closed due to the COVID 19 pandemic in March 2020 and ownership was passed on to Managing Partner of 13 years, Bret Csencsitz. The restaurant is scheduled to reopen under the new partnership in 2021. Portale arrived at the restaurant in 1985.