Mr. Batali had observed her taking a photo of him with her phone, and told her to “come here right now,” the complaint said. She went over to apologize and to tell him she would erase it, she told the police, but instead, he offered to take a selfie with her — and grabbed her as they posed.

The complaint matched an allegation made by Natali Tene, who filed a lawsuit against Mr. Batali in August.

In a statement on Thursday, Ms. Tene’s lawyers said that she was grateful that the charge had been filed. The lawyers, Eric M. Baum and Matthew J. Fogelman, said that Mr. Batali should be held accountable “criminally and civilly” for his actions.

A lawyer for Mr. Batali, Anthony E. Fuller, disputed Ms. Tene’s account.

“Mr. Batali denies the allegations in both this criminal complaint and the civil complaint filed last August,” Mr. Fuller said in a statement to The New York Times on Wednesday. “The charges, brought by the same individual without any new basis, are without merit. He intends to fight the allegations vigorously and we expect the outcome to fully vindicate Mr. Batali.”

Last year, three other women also told the police in New York that Mr. Batali had sexually assaulted them years earlier at two Manhattan restaurants where he was an owner or an investor. But a New York Police Department official confirmed in January that it had closed those investigations because of a lack of evidence and limits imposed by the statute of limitations.