#20 in NYC
Wild Cherry
West Village, Manhattan
Location: 38 Commerce Street, New York, NY 10014. Directions
Kitchen closes: Dinner is served until 9:30 p.m.; the room is open 5–11 p.m. every day.
Wild Cherry is inside the lobby of the Cherry Lane Theatre, with twelve tables and a twelve-seat bar. The bar is kept mostly for walk-ins, first come, first served, and a walk-in waitlist starts in person at 5 p.m.
Booking: Reservations are released on SevenRooms at midnight, fourteen days in advance. Booking information
Official visit information · Checked 2026-09-27. Confirm availability before visiting.
NYC address record · Address checked 2026-09-14.
Brotherly Breakdown
Written by Brotherly Burgers
Wild Cherry's Cheeseburger is a solid burger in the Peter Luger mold: very good beef, a well-toasted bun, and a covering of bone marrow that makes it super rich. The bites that caught enough salt were great.
The rest needed more seasoning, and that is what holds very good meat back. The meal around it was good rather than great, and did not feel worth the hype or the difficulty of getting a reservation.
Best for
Beef-forward, Peter Luger-style burgers, bone marrow richness, well-toasted buns, pre-theater dinners, and West Village dining.
The catch
The burger could have used more seasoning, and the bites that got enough salt were noticeably better than the ones that did not. Getting a table is hard, and the rest of the menu did not feel worth the effort.
Visit
- September 2026 — Cheeseburger
What it's actually like
Wild Cherry is the restaurant inside the Cherry Lane Theatre on Commerce Street in the West Village, the theater now run by the film studio A24. Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr, the chefs behind Frenchette, Le Rock, and the revived Le Veau d'Or, opened it in October 2025 as a 45-seat room, and it has been a hard reservation ever since. The Cheeseburger sits on the supper menu. We went with Eliot Frost and Judy Thelen, the co-founders of the restaurant-rating app Beli.
The beef is the reason to order it. The meat quality was very good, and the bun was toasted well, which matters on a burger this rich. It is a solid burger in the Peter Luger mold, built around the beef.
Then there is the bone marrow. The burger arrives covered in it, and the result is super rich. The Infatuation also describes sauce choron on the build; the marrow and the richness it brings are what we noted.
The one thing missing was salt. The burger could have used more seasoning, and the salty bites were great, which is the clearest sign of how good it could be with a heavier hand.
The rest of the meal was good, not great. For a restaurant this hyped and this hard to get into, it did not feel deserving of either.
One note for anyone going: reservations are released on SevenRooms at midnight, fourteen days ahead, and the twelve-seat bar is kept mostly for walk-ins, with a waitlist that starts in person at 5 p.m. The Infatuation noted in January 2026 that the burger comes with a side of lettuce rather than fries.
Strengths
- Very good meat quality
- Well-toasted bun
- Rich bone marrow topping
- Great bites where the seasoning landed
- Solid Peter Luger-style build
Weaknesses
- Could have used more seasoning
- The rest of the menu did not justify the reservation chase
Why this score
Wild Cherry separates itself through very good beef, a well-toasted bun, and a bone marrow topping that makes it deeply rich.
Seasoning is the gap. The bites that caught enough salt were great, and more of them would have made it a better burger.
Last written September 2026.
- Neighborhood
- West Village, Manhattan
- Cuisine
- American
- Price
- $$$
Cheeseburger
Topped with bone marrow and sauce choron, on a toasted bun.
Menu price: $28
Supper menu. The Infatuation (2026-01-27) reports a side of lettuce rather than fries.
Checked 2026-09-27 · Menu source. Prices may change.
The restaurant inside the A24-run Cherry Lane Theatre on Commerce Street, opened in October 2025 by Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr, the chefs behind Frenchette, Le Rock and the revived Le Veau d'Or.
