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The Blue Box Cafe at Tiffany's will reopen in 2021.
- I went to the Blue Box Cafe to have "breakfast at Tiffany's" just a few weeks before the iconic cafe closed.
- The restaurant was located inside of the Tiffany & Co. store on Fifth Avenue in New York City, which will relocate to Sixth Avenue while the store undergoes renovations.
- The cafe will reopen in 2021 when Tiffany & Co. returns to Fifth Avenue.
- Reservations at the Blue Box Cafe were notoriously hard to get, with a waitlist of more than 30 days, Page Six reported.
- The aesthetics of the cafe were stunning, with walls painted in Tiffany blue and tables adorned with Tiffany silver. The food was also not bad, but there were a few misses on the menu.
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Not even Holly Golightly could get a reservation to have "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
To do so, the fictional character would have to download a reservation app on her phone and wait for a notification that a seat was available at the Blue Box Cafe - the resturant inside of the Fifth Avenue Tiffany & Co. store in New York City, inspired by Truman Capote's 1985 novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which later spawned the 1961 movie of the same name starring Audrey Hepburn.
The restaurant was known for a 30-day wait. My friend Sarah and I decided to wait it out, and eventually lucked out in December 2019, when we found a table at a reasonable time on a reasonable day - 10:45 am on a Sunday.
We were both excited, but perhaps I was a bit more so. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was my favorite novella - a story I've read, and a movie I've watched, every December for the past 10 years. The moment was even more important as I realized it could be my first and last time ever going to the Blue Box Cafe. And not just because reservations are hard to get.
A few days after Sarah secured our reservation, Page Six reported that the Fifth Avenue store would be shutting down for two years for renovations. Earlier this month, the store relocated to Sixth Avenue. The renovations are set to last a year, during which the Blue Box Cafe will not be open. Those hoping to visit the cafe can go to a new location in London, where a Blue Box will open in February.
I was not shy to hide my excitement. And yes, I wore a black dress and looked at the expensive jewelry tucked behind glass cases, just like Hepburn did in the film with George Pleppard before they settled on engraving a ring from a box of Cracker Jack. I, on the other hand, settled for a buttermilk waffle and black coffee.
Keep reading to see what it's like to have "Breakfast at Tiffany's" right before the famed Blue Box closed its doors.