My Dinner With AndrÉ, 1981
Director
Cast
visit the film locations
New York: Flights: JFK Airport
Cafe des Artistes in the Hotel des Artistes, 1 West 67th Street at Central Park West, New York (tel:212.877.3500; jacket and tie required)
Virginia: Jefferson Sheraton, 101 West Franklin Street at Adams Street in Richmond
Trivia
See the interior of the real Cafe des Artistes in Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery.
My Dinner With Andre location: The apparent dinner location: Cafe des Artistes, West 67th Street, New York
Extended mealtime conversation, from a two-hander play, which, against all the odds, somehow manages to be fascinating.
If you want to relive the experience (expensively) with a friend, the restaurant is the romantic but pricy Cafe des Artistes in the Hotel des Artistes, 1 West 67th Street at Central Park West, New York.
The hotel was once home to the likes of Isadora Duncan, Alexander Wollcott, Noël Coward and Norman Rockwell.
Simple? No, it never is, of course. The movie was shot in Richmond, Virginia.
Due to budgetary restrictions, a non-union crew was used, which meant relocating from New York.
The restaurant’s interior was recreated in the Grand Ballroom of the, then closed-down Jefferson Hotel, 101 West Franklin Street at Adams Street in Richmond.
The grandiose Beaux Arts building, dating from 1895, had been damaged by fire, but reopened in its full splendour again as the Jefferson Sheraton in 1986.
