“They have crumpled up page after page about the script that made their previous ventures so beloved and written a new libretto, emphasizing refined notes over rustic ones, sacrificing hip on the altar of elegant. Spacious and tranquil, with a piano player in place of a rock soundtrack, Del Posto is the anti-Babbo, the un-Lupa.” […]
“Some restaurants push their tasting menus. Standard Restaurant doesn’t. A few steps down from the sidewalk, on the same block of East 20th Street as Gramercy Tavern and the brownstone where Teddy Roosevelt was born, Standard Restaurant lists a “regional pasta tasting” for $90 on its menu. The region in question is Emilia-Romagna, whose refinements […]
“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 […]
