WeddingWire says the site fee here covers chairs, china, linens, setup, cleanup, lighting and sound, and parking, but attaches no dollar amount to any of it.
Red Hat on the River is a restaurant that hosts weddings, and the difference matters. It has operated since 2003 in what it describes as a restored hundred year old factory at 1 Bridge Street in Irvington, directly on the Hudson, with a pewter bar, banquettes and WPA era artwork inside. The scale tops out around 150 guests, a figure The Knot, WeddingWire and Eventective all agree on, and the venue itself publishes no capacity at all. Four settings sit in one building: the main dining room with river views, the Loft, a riverside patio and a rooftop bar. Anyone can book, through an open inquiry form or the direct line on 914-568-3233. The thing to understand before you go further is that the venue offers private and semi private group space. A semi private booking shares the building with normal restaurant service, and nobody publishes a policy on running one event at a time. Ask which you are buying.
Every dollar figure here is a marketplace figure and the two marketplaces are measuring different things. Eventective’s $22 to $62 covers menu options. WeddingWire’s $45 covers bar service and sits on top. Neither includes service charge or tax, which nobody publishes. Ask Red Hat directly for a per person food rate, a bar package rate, the site fee in dollars, the service charge as a percentage, and whether your booking closes the restaurant to the public.
The venue’s home and events pages, plus The Knot, WeddingWire and Eventective listings for Red Hat on the River. All read 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
Private and semi private are both on offer, so a booking may not give you exclusive use of the building. Confirm which one you are buying, and use the phone number on the venue’s own site rather than the one on Eventective.
Our source data listed Red Hat under barns and farms, with a type of bistro. It is neither a barn nor a farm. It is a waterfront restaurant in a converted factory building on the Hudson at Irvington, and we have moved it to the waterfront hub where it belongs.
We are saying so rather than quietly fixing it. A couple searching for a barn should not land here by accident, and a directory that corrects itself in public is easier to trust than one that does it silently.
The correction matters in a second way. A restaurant and a wedding venue sell different things, and the rest of this page only makes sense once you know which of the two you are looking at.
The main dining room looks over the Hudson. The Loft handles private and semi private groups. There is a riverside patio and a rooftop bar, both outdoors and both presumably weather dependent, though the venue publishes no seasonal months for either.
What the venue does not publish is how many people fit in any of them. The 150 figure that everyone quotes is a whole venue number from three marketplace listings, not a room by room breakdown. If you want the Loft, ask what the Loft seats.
The building itself has been a restaurant since 2003 and is described by the venue as a restored hundred year old factory. The architect and the original factory name are not published, so if the industrial history is part of the appeal, there is less of it on the record than you might expect.
Eventective lists menu options at $22 to $62 per person, and an overall event cost of $1,100 to $3,100 for 50 guests. WeddingWire separately lists bar service starting at $45 per person, which sits on top of food and is described as covering bartenders, house beer, wine and liquor, limited or open bar, premium liquor and signature drinks.
Those are two marketplaces measuring two different things, and the venue itself publishes no pricing whatsoever. Add them badly and you will mislead yourself.
Look at what the Eventective figures imply. Eventective puts an overall event cost at $1,100 to $3,100 for 50 guests. The same listing puts menu options at $22 to $62 per person, and WeddingWire adds bar service from $45 per person on top of food. Run the top of that food range and the bar figure against 50 people yourself, and you will not land inside $3,100. One of those numbers describes a small lunch and the other describes a wedding. Both are printed above with their sources, and only the restaurant can say which one applies to a Saturday in June.
WeddingWire says chairs, china, flatware, glassware, linens, tables, setup, cleanup, event planning, lighting and sound, and parking are included in the site fee. It gives no dollar amount for that fee, and the venue does not publish one.
So you know what the fee covers and not what it costs. Eventective also notes that no food and beverage minimum is listed. Ask for the site fee, the minimum, the service charge and the tax treatment as four separate numbers.
That list of inclusions is worth something on its own. At a restaurant, china, glassware and staff come with the building, which removes an entire category of rental cost that a barn or a raw space would hand back to you.
The venue describes the Loft as available for private and semi private groups. In a restaurant that serves the public every night, semi private means your wedding shares the building with people eating dinner. Some couples are entirely happy with that, especially for a small reception. Others would be horrified to discover it in week 51.
Neither an exclusivity statement nor an end time appears in anything published about this venue. That matters more here than at a dedicated wedding property, because the building is a working restaurant with a rooftop bar, and its default state on a Saturday night is open to the public.
Ask about the rooftop bar and the patio in the same breath. Those are the spaces a restaurant is least likely to hand over exclusively on a July Saturday, because they are where its regular trade goes.
The riverside patio and the rooftop bar are the reason to choose a Hudson River restaurant, and neither has a published set of months or a stated wet weather arrangement. The main dining room and the Loft are indoors and are the obvious fallback.
So ask two things. What months the patio and roof are actually open, and who decides on the day that a ceremony is moving inside. A restaurant makes that call for its dinner service all the time, which is reassuring, but you want to know the hour it gets made.
The venue’s own site gives 914-568-3233. Eventective lists 914-591-5888 for the same business. The number on the venue’s own page is the one it stands behind, and the other is a listing artefact that nobody at Red Hat has confirmed either way.
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