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[rozrapp]

Dropping their tasting menu, Eater says.

When we had dinner on the Rooftop on Wednesday, they told us they had stopped serving the tasting menu downstairs. They felt it didn't make sense to continue offering it there since the Rooftop menu is strictly a tasting. We asked if there had been any complaints, and they said very few. They did say it will probably return in the fall.

The Rooftop is lovely. The tasting screams "Summer!" Gorgeous plating. Seriously delicious. Michael did the Rosé pairings.



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[oakapple]

When we had dinner on the Rooftop on Wednesday, they told us they had stopped serving the tasting menu downstairs. They felt it didn't make sense to continue offering it there since the Rooftop menu is strictly a tasting. We asked if there had been any complaints, and they said very few. They did say it will probably return in the fall.

That makes sense.

[Daisy]

I have now eaten here twice, once for lunch in July, then dinner at a private event in the fireplace room last week. The food is executed at a very high level. The menu is fairly 'safe', for lack of a better description. The cocktails are terrific. The wine is expensive (but then so is the food, lunch for two with two glasses of one of the lower priced wines was $180).

The best things I tasted---and everything was good--were the lobster minestrone, steak tartare, salmon rillettes, tomato salad, tagliatelle with crab, a slow-cooked black bass, beef.

I would definitely return to the bar for one of their great drinks--the Turf Cocktail is outstanding--and something like the steak tartare or rillettes, or the crudites with chive cream. And I really want to try the chicken. NoMad is so glam that I think it makes a nice special occasion restuarant. There were 14 people at the party and we were all extremely dolled up but certainly not overdressed considering what other patrons were wearing. Lunch is of course more casual.

[Daisy]

I met a friend here last night for drinks and between us we had four excellent (as well they should be at $15) cocktails. My Bijou contained gin, Carpano vermouth, chartreuse and was really very fine. It was strong and slightly sweet and I decided to go for a vesper as my second drink because I wanted something a bit more astringent. Great version. Our server was terrific---we were at one of the stand up tables in the bar along with about a thousand others and her efficiency was impressive.

Annoyance: I arrived around 5:50 and when I asked the Library major domo for seats for two (I spied at least 6 empty seats)she said 'are you a guest of the hotel?' 'No? Then it will be a 45 minute wait.' She wasn't exactly rude, but I would say her reply was crisp bordering on curt. Even more annoying was that when colleagues of a fellow I was chatting with in the main bar arrived he, who was not a guest at the hotel (I know this because it came up in our discussion), and his party were ushered into the library after a very short wait by the same woman who had brushed me off. Grrrr.

[The Princess]

I had dinner there last wednesday and the food was absolutely amazing. Brunch, however, is a different story. The food is mediocre at best and the service suck ass.

[Suzanne F]

There is not such thing as a good brunch. There can't be. You should know that!

[The Princess]

I beg to disagree. Take a place like Miss Lilly's or even a drama place like Freeman's. You get there, they bring you the coffee and orange juice, you order your food, it gets to your table 15-20 minutes later. You eat and then you are off to do whatever you do. 

 

We walked in at 11:17 and did not get our coffee until 11:50. The server told us that the coffee is brewing that was why it took that long. That does not explain why the coffee got to our table on the cold side of lukewarm. With the time it took, I could have hobbled down to stump town, ordered a latte or espresso and still made it before them.

[Suzanne F]

That's not saying the brunch at Miss Lily's or Freeman's is good, just that the service is efficient.

 

No one wants to work brunch, not the cooks, not the front-of-house. It is the hellhole of restaurant service. Been there, done that as you might know.

 

Hey, heal quickly!

[Wilfrid]

Carbone, I might say, is pushing it with cocktails more expensive than The NoMad.  More expensive than Osteria del Circo too, as I noticed recently.