After the success of his West Village retro lounge, Beatrice Inn co-owner Matt Abramcyk is looking deeper into the past for his newest venue. Smith and Mills, which Abramcyk is set to open Monday with his Employees Only partner Akiva Elstein, is housed in a 200-year-old Tribeca building that was once home to a coffee roaster, a seafarers' inn, and, slightly less appealingly, a horse stable. Decor mostly reflects that eclectic past, with an ornate freight elevator-turned-bathroom, antique lighting, and vintage drafting chairs for seating. But the intimate space and, at 450 square feet, we mean intimate has built buzz the new-fashioned way, hosting private events during Tribeca Film Festival, as well as the recent after-party for Rogan Gregory's new surfboard line. As for the food, the kitchen will serve everything from a house-cured gravlax plate to oysters by chef Julia Jaksic, another Beatrice and Employees Only vet. "a genuinely hip new place in Tribeca.
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