Café des Artistes was a fine restaurant at 1 West 67th Street in Manhattan.

[2] The restaurant first opened in 1917,[3] at street level of the Hotel des Artistes tower.

Artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, Isadora Duncan and Rudolph Valentino were patrons.

[5] In early September 2009, two years into the Great Recession, Lang announced that the café was closing; shortly thereafter, Lang filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, claiming debts of nearly $500,000, some of which was owed to a union benefit trust.

Christy was a tenant of the building, Hotel des Artistes, until his death in 1952.