Cecily

What Cecily does

Cecily was a privately held restaurant founded by Greenpoint, Brooklyn locals and operating dinner service Tuesday through Saturday from a single storefront at 80 Franklin Street. The business was built around a staff-first employment philosophy emphasizing sustainable wages, hiring from the neighborhood, and an intentionally quiet dining atmosphere, and it served the surrounding Brooklyn community with a curated natural-wine program. In 2024 the restaurant earned Michelin Guide Recommended status and attracted coverage in Eater NY, Vogue, Forbes, the New York Times, Greenpointers, Punch, and other publications, establishing a reputation beyond its immediate geography.

The company's commercial footprint comprised two channels: a traditional dine-in restaurant service and an e-commerce storefront offering branded merchandise (a $45 crop top, $18 leather wine book, $12 leather check presenter, and $8 SVG logo files) alongside a wine recommendation and delivery service with three price tiers starting at $40. No enterprise customers, contracted B2B relationships, or revenue figures were disclosed. The company was independently owned with no disclosed venture capital, private equity, or parent-company involvement, and raised approximately $124,000 in its only reported funding round on September 8, 2023.

On the technology and operations side, Cecily operated with 1–10 employees and used standard small-business tooling including a Squarespace-hosted website and Givebutter for the staff support fund; no proprietary technology, AI/ML capabilities, patents, APIs, or technology partnerships were disclosed. The business has since ceased operations after November 17, 2024, with ownership establishing an employee support fund distributed equally among non-owner staff during the wind-down.

Name

Cecily

Legal name

Cecily

Website

https://cecilybk.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cecily was a Brooklyn-based restaurant offering Tuesday-through-Saturday dinner service in Greenpoint, complemented by an e-commerce storefront for branded merchandise and a wine recommendation and delivery service. It closed in November 2024 after roughly two years of operation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Restaurant Services

NAICS

Full-Service Restaurants (722511)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Fine Dining Restaurants (THAFACAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Special Occasion & Destination Restaurants (THAFACAK)

Keywords

• Neighborhood restaurant service
• Natural wine bar
• Branded merchandise retail
• Wine recommendation service
• Community dining experience

Headquarters

HQ city

Brooklyn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Restaurant dining service: Traditional dine-in restaurant offering dinner service Tuesday through Saturday. Revenue generated from food and beverage sales to guests.
2. Merchandise and retail products: Sale of branded merchandise including clothing (crop tops), leather goods (wine books, check presenters), digital assets (SVG logo files), and wine recommendations at wholesale pricing.

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cecily operated a neighborhood dinner-service restaurant in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, serving guests Tuesday through Saturday at 80 Franklin Street with a staff-first wage model. Alongside the dine-in experience, the business ran a small e-commerce store offering branded merchandise (clothing, leather goods, digital SVG files) and a curated wine recommendation and local delivery service at wholesale-discount pricing.

Product overview

Cecily is a restaurant and retail business in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that operated a dinner service restaurant (closing after November 17) alongside an e-commerce store. The store offers two product categories: merchandise (apparel and branded accessories including SVG files, leather goods, and clothing) and Cecily services (wine recommendation and delivery). The product portfolio centers on branded merchandise and wine-related services, reflecting the restaurant's culinary identity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cecily Dine-In Restaurant Service Traditional dine-in restaurant service offering dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 80 Franklin Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, hosting celebrations such as birthdays, engagements, first dates, and reunions for local community members. The restaurant announced closure after November 17, 2024.
• Wine Recommendation Service

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Misi: Brooklyn Italian restaurant in the same Williamsburg dining cluster as Lilia, with a similar destination-restaurant positioning. Comparable in scale, geography, and independent-operator economics.
• Hart's: Small, neighborhood-focused restaurant in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn with a similar locally-rooted, quality-driven identity and similar scale of operation. Comparable in vibe, mission, and target customer to Cecily.
• The Musket Room: Nolita neighborhood restaurant that earned a Michelin star and is similarly small-format, chef-driven, and wine-focused. Comparable as an independent NYC restaurant with strong press and wine-program identity.
• Frenchette: TriBeCa French restaurant with a similar chef-driven, neighborhood-destination profile and Michelin-adjacent press profile. Comparable in concept, scale, and target diner.
• Crown Shy: FiDi fine dining restaurant with Michelin recognition and a similar special-occasion, destination positioning. Comparable as a press-validated, quality-driven NYC independent.
• Lilia: Williamsburg, Brooklyn Italian destination restaurant that is Michelin Recommended and similarly built a destination dining identity through press and word-of-mouth. Comparable as a Brooklyn independent that became a special-occasion default.
• The Four Horsemen: Brooklyn (Williamsburg) restaurant and natural wine bar with a Michelin-recognized, chef-driven, neighborhood-focused concept. Closely comparable to Cecily in geography, natural-wine-led positioning, and small-format fine dining identity.
• Francie: Brooklyn (Williamsburg) Italian destination restaurant that opened in the same era and is positioned similarly as a neighborhood-rooted, special-occasion restaurant. Comparable in geography, scale, and operational model.
• Wildair: Lower East Side restaurant and natural wine bar with a small-format, wine-forward, chef-driven identity. Directly comparable to Cecily's natural wine program and special-occasion positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Le Coucou: SoHo French fine dining restaurant within a larger hospitality group (Major Food Group). Comparable as a destination, celebration-oriented NYC restaurant, but at meaningfully larger scale and with a broader portfolio operator — useful as an upper bound on concept ambition.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/cecilybk

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Cecily