Often out of towners when they believe about New York dining, they think about extraordinarily generous, dear food with interior decor designed by well-known star-chitects with much more famous celebrity chef’s advising the eaterie name. While those restaurants ( Olive, Spice Market, or all of the Jean Georges for that matter ) are amazing restaurants- they should be, because outrageous amounts of cash are devoted to their selling, and management team, where the taste, quality of food is one of the major part in the well-oiled machine that is the culinary food experience. Nonetheless I would like to highlight some of my favorite restaurants that are all a bit below the radar, and should be on your list of expensive New York restaurants to hit if you’re visiting from out of town.
1. Casa Mono- Tapas- Stupendously little space- but they have got a sister wine bar nextdoor called Bar Jamon that permits you to sip on wonderful Riojas while you wait. This is also a reasonably smart business strategy, so they never basically lose patrons to long waits. The food here at one of the expensive New York restaurants is really based usually on Catalan style tapas, and not the north Pinxchos variety, and it’s more “done up” than you are common run of the mill tapas bar that serve tortillas ( Spanish omelets loaded in butter and potatoes ) and croquettes. They serve a mean razor clam dish, and boiled short rib. Though i am not keen on sweet bread ( that’d be brain… ) it’s totally good from what I’ve heard. Dcor is straightforward, dark woods, and ambiance is dark and comfy. 2.
Sakagura- Japanese / Sake Bar a completely random location in the basement in midtown east, but if you’re looking for the best sauteed pork belly, authentic yet pleasant Japanese street food and sake served the way in which it should be ( not in a box, but iced in a normal hollowed out glass server ) here is where you must try. Listed one amongst the expensive New York restaurants,it is in the basement of an office building, but if you go around late Apr, early May, it is packed with precise cherry blossoms attached to each column. Superb! There’s no sushi there- only prepared cooked food, and no, you will not find any chicken teriyaki there either.
