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It’s that time of year again — New York City Restaurant Week is back! The winter edition runs from Tuesday, January 16 through Sunday, February 4, offering diners $30 to $45 multi-course lunches and brunches, plus $60 dinners at some of the city’s most renowned, trendiest and sought after spots. Technically, you have three weeks to book a table an enjoy a dining deal, so get ahead of your plans and take advantage of the discounted pre-fixes at these top New York City restaurants:
Kintsugi Omakase
This sushi atelier tucked away in Soho offers elegant omakase at the 10-seat counter. For restaurant week, a 12-course prix fixe menu will be offered for $60 per person with an optional seasonal sake beverage paring for an additional $35 per person. The menu may change with seasonal availability but some items may include smoked Spanish mackerel, Hokkaido scallop, Alaska black cod, and much more.
KYU
The Asian-inspired, wood-fired BBQ restaurant (as seen on And Just Like That) will offer a 3-course dinner and Sunday brunch. Plant-based options are available, plus an “On the Wagon” non-alcoholic cocktail list. Must-try plates include Korean fried chicken, roasted cauliflower and mom’s coconut cake.
Vestry
For a Michelin-starred meal this Restaurant Week, head to Chef Shaun Hergatt’s SoHo hotspot. Appetizers options include grilled hen of the woods mushroom, celeriac soup, salmon crudo, or braised pork belly. For entree, diners have options of sweet garlic-marinated shrimp, wild mushroom risotto, or Imperial Wagyu beef for a supplemental charge. Dessert options include Chef Shaun’s famous cheesecake, coconut tapioca, or chocolate mousse.
Casa Bond
The Bowery’s newest Mexican restaurant will offer a dinner menu highlighting it’s chic and spicy cuisine. Options include a quesadilla verde with spinach-jalapeño-epazote and cremini mushrooms, cochinita pibil, and panchos yacatecos topped with pollo pibil, pickled red onions and habanero.
Delmonico’s
The recently reopened classic restaurant is offering weekday lunch, Sunday brunch and dinner. Taste your way through some of Delmonico’s most iconic dishes incuding the chopped wedge salad, yellowtail crudo, Chicken a la Keene, and of course steaks. The Signature Delmonico (18oz, Brandt Family Farms, CA Served with Pomme Puree or Creamed Spinach) and Dry Aged Bone in Ribeye (22oz, DemKota Ranch, SD) will be offered. For dessert, try Delmonico’s Original Baked Alaska featuring banana gelato, walnut cake and apricot jam.
LittleMad
This vibrant Korean-American restaurant, is offering a three course pre-fix menu with indulgent add-ons available such as uni, caviar, and seasonal truffle. Signature dishes from Executive Chef Sol include beef tartare with mille
Few things in life are as miserable as flying in an uncomfortable airline seat for hours on end. Fortunately for air travelers, cramped legroom and sleepless flights are so last year.
Editor's note: Japan Airlines provided TPG with a complimentary round-trip ticket between New York and Tokyo so we could be aboard the airline's inaugural A350-1000 flight, but all opinions expressed are entirely those of the author and were not subject to review by the airline or any other external entity.
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Dinner begins at Gori, the tasting menu chef’s counter that opened this month above Anto, a high end Korean steakhouse in New York’s Midtown East, with the presentation of ingredients in a lavish Cartier chest. How to take this: a bit showy, too quintessential East Side? But once the ten courses start to appear, the luxe introduction makes sense. Chef Jeong Muk Kim, formerly of Myomi in Seoul, the youngest chef to earn a Michelin star in Korea, joined this nearly year old restaurant in November and uses strictly elite ingredients such as the caviar, uni and Wagyu in the chest. Even more important: the creations he produces from them for the ten seat counter have flavors so fully developed and enticing that they immediately set up anticipation for the next course.
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