NYC Restaurant Brags Taxidermy Ostrich Is Not Just Social Media’s Latest Dead Bird
KEY POINTS
- •Brass restaurant and Tusk Bar opened inside Manhattan’s Evelyn Hotel two years ago with a design inspired by 1920s Parisian apartments.
- •The space includes taxidermied ostriches, gold settees, and red curtains, creating an intimate French salon vibe led by chefs Jeremiah Stone and Fabián Von Hauske Valtierra.
- •This design trend follows a post-COVID era craving comfort and communal spaces, from NYC to LA and Philadelphia, blending nostalgia with modern hospitality.
At Brass restaurant and Tusk Bar inside NYC’s Evelyn Hotel, visitors can subconsciously compete with a taxidermied ostrich that has doggedly photobombed Instagram stories since 2024. Designed by Ashley Wilkins’ Islyn Studio as a ’love letter to 1920s Parisian apartments,’ this space features plush gold settees, parlor palms, and ostentatious red curtains separating the oyster bar from kitchens run by Jeremiah Stone and Fabián Von Hauske Valtierra of Contra and Wildair fame. This bar is basically a nostalgia trip for pandemic-era WFH velvet-philia, complete with cozy sofas that convince even solo diners they’re part of a lavish French salon — minus the baguettes, but definitely not the pastel middle-class existential dread.
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That moment when NYC’s posh new bar makes you think you’re crashing a ’20s French salon, but really you’re just cozying up to a taxidermied ostrich staring into your soul.
Forget mid-century modern, Brass Bar’s installing mood-killing taxidermy ostriches to keep your existential crises company.
When your bar’s centerpiece is a dead bird that’s had more Instagram clout than most influencers, you know you’re in New York.
Source: Eater | Published: 2/6/2026 | Author: Francky Knapp
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