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Robert Little
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Username: Boblittle
Post Number: 367
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 - 7:32 pm: | 
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The Four Seasons (the restaurant, not the unrelated hotel) is the greatest rooms in all of restaurantland. Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe-designed. The only interior national historic landmark. Unchanged since the 1950s. Chain curtains rippling in the breeze from the air conditioning. The Pool Room. The Picasso tapestry. The Grill Room. The glass-enclosed wine cellar.
Although it's the greatest place to eat lunch in the world, the food, at least for the money, has fallen flankside to the other great restaurants in New York--Jean Georges, Le Bernardin, Per Se. It was worth every penny (and it's a lot of 'em) but more for the experience than for the food.
But now the restaurant has joined the cheap lunch pre-fixe crowd, one of New York's great bargains. Jean Georges for $45. Le Bernardin for $51. (Per Se is $210 at lunch--go to Bouchon downstairs.)
At the magisterial Four Seasons, the "bar lunch" is $25 or $35 for two courses. You sit in the backless seats by the bar. The seats, too, were designed by Philip Johnson. (On occasion they break out the plates and flatware he designed.) |
summerbabe
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Username: Summerbabe
Post Number: 78
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 - 10:24 am: |
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The Four Seasons is one of my absolute favorite places in the world to grab an after-work Martini or Manhattan and people-watch. Those rooms are so full of NY history -- I get shivers thinking about Marilyn singing "Happy Birthday" to JFK and all the media deals made there. Thanks for the heads-up on the "bar lunch." |
Robert Little
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Username: Boblittle
Post Number: 369
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, May 13, 2006 - 2:29 pm: |
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The lunch menu can be found at the web site www.fourseasonsrestaurant.com. Or via below link. The restaurant was the first to develop seasonal menus so it's subject to frequent change.
Not on the bar menu is their famous evergreen offering, Dover sole ($48). A museum dish, not found on American menus anymore. The greatest of the lost classics you don't see much anymore, along with turtle soup (ocasionally at Ruth's Chris).
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