“Chef Frednier’s new restaurant has a blandly corporate name, East 20th Street, which tells you less about the place than simply walking into the dining room. One of the several operations he is running in the new Times Square Edition hotel, it is clad in panelling on the walls and ceilings. Velvet curtains and banquettes are the slightly alarming colour of a blue macaw’s tail feathers. Wooden blinds are usually snapped shut against the strobes of 47th Street and Seventh Avenue.”
– John Doe