Cleo

About Cleo

Cleo is a forty-seat room on Hudson Street organized around a rotisserie visible behind a marble counter, turning chickens that are sold by the half and the whole. The idea is deliberately narrow: do the chicken very well, cook the potatoes underneath it in the drippings, keep the salads sharp, and get out of the way. It functions as both a sit-down restaurant and a takeout counter, which suits the block. The lighting is low, the playlist is loud, and the service is more polished than the casual framing suggests. It is exactly the kind of restaurant a neighborhood actually uses.