![]() ![]() It’s said that New York has more Italian restaurants than Florence, Italy, and in addition, more regional types. Il Gattopardo Il Gattopardo/Aliza Eliazarov/ Il Gattopardo (13-15 West 54th Street | 21) It’s the building with two-dozen jockey statues arrayed along the terrace and shiny wrought iron doors beneath them.īook Now If you’re staying at The St. Once an intimidating place for newcomers, the greeting has never been more egalitarian, the American food never better (including the famous “21 burger”) and the wine list has bottles going back to the Nixon era (his bottles are still down there). With its main dining room hung with corporate toys and John McEnroe’s tennis racket, its ancient bar, its magnificent collection of graphic artwork and a secret wine vault behind a six-ton concrete door (ask for a peek), 21 has more stories than the Arabian Nights. ![]() ![]() Movies like Sweet Smell of Success and Wall Street used scenes at 21 to immediately signal how much power the characters had in New York. No restaurant has a more raffish history than The 21 Club (which regulars call “the numbers”), dating back to the Prohibition era as a speakeasy, then as the postwar watering hole for everyone from Humphrey Bogart and Orson Welles to Marilyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall, and every president since Eisenhower. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Getty Images 21 Club (21 West 52nd Street | 21) collection of small painted cast iron lawn jockey statues which adorn the balcony above the entrance. The 21 Club in Midtown Manhattan is a former prohibition-era speakeasy, features a colorful. Patrick’s Cathedral, shopping on 5th Avenue or staying at The Peninsula New York. If you’re a guest at the Michelangelo Hotel, the Conrad New York Midtown or need to escape the madness of Midtown Manhattan-reservations at Le Bernardin should be on your to-do list.īook Now If you’re touring St. There is also a separate lounge menu, which, for once, deserved to be called soigné. Everything from bread and rolls to end-of-the-evening chocolates are as delicious as any anywhere. Lunch is priced $90-which would cost twice that in Paris-and at dinner $160, with an amazing range of dishes to choose from, like seafood carpaccio (created by Gilbert on opening) to seared langoustines with foie gras croutons and morels. Each dish is enhanced, yet never drowned in or overpowered by ingredients.Īldo Sohm’s wine list doesn’t have a single bottle that does not complement the menu. It’s one of the most beautiful dining rooms in the city, which the very chic, very Parisian Maguy keeps refreshed, as does her partner-chef Eric Ripert, who has maintained Le Bernardin’s devotion to impeccable seafood. There once was a Le Bernardin in Paris, but when Maguy Le Coze and her brother, the late chef Gilbert Le Coze, opened in New York in 1986, they closed the former to devote all their Gallic finesse to the latter. It is usually futile to declare any one restaurant the best in a city as diverse as New York, but if you totaled up every accolade-including four stars from the Times and three Michelin stars-given to Le Bernardin over 30 years, it would be laps beyond every other. ![]()
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