Mae Mae Café

Designed in the style of a European "enoteca di vino," Mae Mae Café is designed and operated by Great Performances. This Soho Café features fresh, homemade, specialty dishes and an outstanding selection of wines that are also used decoratively throughout this warm and intimate room. The rest of its décor is a nuanced mixture of antique wood furnishings, deep bold colors, and eclectic objects d’art. This unique venue is perfect for small gatherings, meetings, seated dinners and cocktail receptions. Mae Mae also has a full bar and in-house mixologist to serve you an inspired cocktail.

Great Performances incorporated in l979 as a waitress staffing service for women in the arts, offering an alternative way to supplement meager artist incomes with work in the fledgling catering industry. The industry boomed overnight and Great Performances grew along with it, most notably by adding men to its personnel roster and catering to its client services. Its first commercial kitchen was built in Soho in l982. Ten years later, the company moved to Hudson Square where it now occupies 23,000 square feet, a space more than 15 times the size of its original commissary. Today, Great Performances – a company that recognizes women and men equally – is an established and successful enterprise, remaining committed to its mission in the arts while elevating hospitality to an art form in itself.