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“Not just the grandest and most beautiful restaurant in America, but perhaps the most spectacular ever. Eat here, and you’ll understand class.”
Alan Richman's Haute Cui...
Want to know what fine dining in New York City is all about? Multiple JBF Award–winning food writer Alan Richman tells us where he sends visitors looking for a real taste of NYC haute cuisine.
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2 La Grenouille $$$$ French
3 E. 52nd St., Manhattan, NYListed by
“More than merely a year-round flower show for hungry horticultural societies. Indeed, the dining room is always in bloom, but more and more I appreciate the haute French cuisine, formidable and laudable.”
3 Le Bernardin 99 TastyRx $$$$ French, Seafood
155 W. 51st St., Manhattan, NYListed by
“Eric Ripert is a genius with fish. The products are wonderful, the cooking faultless, the service masterful, and the sommelier (Aldo Sohn) rater the best in the world. Once, Le Bernardin was a French restaurant specializing in fish; now it’s a fish restaurant where not much is French, other than an insistence on culinary flawlessness.”
4 Marea 95 $$$$ Italian, Seafood
240 Central Park S., Manhattan, NYListed by
“This Italian seafood restaurant seemed fully formed the moment it opened early in 2009, and it offers so many choices you’ll think a fishing armada had set sail to stock the kitchen. Nobody eating Michael White’s food ever complains that there’s nothing of interest on his menus. Don’t miss the fusilli with red wine–braised octopus and bone marrow, magnificent with a glass of red wine.”