Midtown’s Pearl Hotel gets a steakhouse

Kenji Ota (top) and Jeffrey Roseman of Newmark Knight Frank and the Pearl Hotel at 233 West 49th Street

E & E Grillhouse recently signed its first Manhattan lease in the Pearl Hotel at 233 West 49th Street in the Theater District. The 2,300-square-foot raw space had an asking rent of $150 a foot, according to Kenji Ota of Newmark Knight Frank, who represented the tenant but declined to provide the actual price being paid. The Pearl, whose landlord is the Empire Hotel Group, is a small boutique hotel which opened earlier this month. E & E Grillhouse, a steakhouse, will be the hotel’s only restaurant space and is expected to open in spring 2011, Ota said. Empire Hotel was represented by Newmark’s Marc Frankel, Ben Birnbaum and Jeffrey Roseman. TRD