[Photo from the other day]
Ravi DeRossi debuts his latest bar tonight on Astor Place.
Coup joins his local bar-restaurant empire that includes Death & Company, Mother of Pearl, Avant Garden and Cienfuegos.
The idea for Coup came about in the wake of Election 2016.
Per The New York Times:
“For the few weeks after the election, I couldn’t get out of bed,” he said. “It was all I could do to read the news.”
So, to snap himself out of it, he did what he does best: open a bar.
And...
“One-hundred percent of the profits are going to organizations that are either being defunded by the current administration or need money to fight the current administration, like Planned Parenthood and the A.C.L.U.,” he said.
Gothamist has more on how all this will work:
The space features two bars, one of which will host a rotating lineup of the city's best bar talent, who will choose a cause of their choice to which that evening's bar sales will be donated. The list of signed on talent is impressive, including Best American Bartender of the Year for 2015 Ivy Mix of Leyenda, Jim Meehan of PDT, Joaquin Simo from Pouring Ribbons and Alton "Good Eats" Brown himself. Each will create specialty cocktails for their shifts.
At the other bar, guests are given a wooden token with each beverage purchased, which they'll drop into jars bearing the names of different charitable organizations. The donation groups will rotate on a day-to-day basis. The dollar amount from the tokens in each jar will be calculated, the total of which will be donated to said charity by Coup.
Cocktails and glasses of wine are $20 each; beer and cocktails are $15. Coup is also gratuity free. You can find the drink menu at the Coup website here.
The space at 64 Cooper Square was previously home to DeRossi's Bergen Hill.
