Hotel restaurants have come a long way from being a less than stellar last resort dining option. In New York City, long known for being “the city that never sleeps,” now it’s possible to have a night on the town right in your hotel’s eatery or bar area. New York hotels have upped the ante on in-house meals in settings worthy of today’s food-savvy gourmands.
Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to find a celebrated chef dishing out epicurean masterpieces right from the hotel’s bistro. Hotels are heavily investing, hiring star-studded restaurant interior designers who are creating a sexy supermodel ambiance necessary to attract an out of hotel dining experience and also drawing in locals.
Whether for a business meeting, laid-back lunch or romantic dinner, here are six of New York’s renowned epicurean establishments situated within the hotel’s confines.
Perrine Restaurant – Pierre Hotel
If not for its regal Central Park location and grandiose dining room, you might think that you’ve entered a Thomas Keller run Michelin star eatery in Yountville in the Napa Valley.
Perrine is the unpretentious French-American eatery located on the ground floor of the elegant Pierre Hotel. If you’re walking the streets of New York toward Central Park, you might walk right on by the restaurant located on 61st Street and 5th Avenue. Talented star executive chef Asher Biju’s works seamlessly with his brilliant sous chefs to create takes on modern-day, time-tested, elegant vintage Perrine classics including twists on his mouthwatering Beef Wellington keeps guests returning for more.
Everything created by Chef Byju is pure pleasure on your plate. The Coq au vin sums up a slow home-cooked French comfort meal and dates back to the restaurants’ inception to the opening menu in 1930.
Ortzi Restaurant – Luma Hotel
Located in the lobby of LUMA Hotel Times Square, Ortzi Restaurant is the inspiration of renowned James Beard award-winning Iron Chef and Food Network personality Jose Garces. Dishes are inspired by Garces upbringing in Spain’s Basque region. The restaurant and wine bar focuses on Basque home cooking. Garces and his master chef de cuisine Michael Han put a focus on small plates, cooking in cazuelas, traditional Basque dishes prepared in terra-cotta clay pottery.
The menu includes braised oxtail and an assortment of crudos, of raw Beef, tuna, hamachi, braised octopus or the traditional cockles with Spanish chorizo. For the ultimate tapas experience, there is the chef’s four-course tasting menu.
Treadwell Park – Cache Hotel
If you’re looking for a laid back dining experience, look no further than Treadwell Park connected to the Cache Boutique Hotel. The spacious gastro-pub is a shrine for micro-brew aficionados.
The signature dish is the pub grub favorite giant soft pretzel. Craft beers pair well with tasty burgers, slow-cooked pulled pork and Jamaican jerk chicken. The vibrant Treadwell Park is a reason not to leave your hotel.
Legasea Seafood Brasserie – Moxy Times Square
Located on the second floor of the contemporary shabby-chic Moxy Hotel in Times Square and pioneered by leading restaurant and nightlife-entertainment brand, TAO with chef-partner Jason Hall at the helm.
Well thought sharable, family-style seafood platters. Menu highlights include Manhattan Clam Chowder, the Lobster Bake (shrimp, clams, mussels, corn, new potatoes), the impressive 7th Ave Seafood Tower, large market-driven salads, and entrées such as Yellowfin Tuna Au Poivre and Chatham Cod Fish and Chips, a fresh take on a classic dish.
Burger Joint – Parker Meridien Hotel
Not too many hotels in Midtown can boast a hidden-cult eatery specializing in the most American of foods, the classic hamburger, but Burger Joint in the Parker Meridien Hotel does just that and has quite a cult following. Inevitably, a posh hotel does not conjure up images of a burger establishment. The fact is that you would never guess that it even exists unless you’ve heard about it. There is no signage other than a neon burger logo, and it’s behind a velvet curtain in the hotel’s lobby.
A slice of Americana. Nothing fancy about Burger Joint. Just a tasty all-American burger. The sparse greasy spoon diner-style eatery is pure mouthwatering, straightforward hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fries, milkshakes, and you can order a cold beer to wash it all down.
Gemma Italian Restaurant – Bowery Hotel
Since 2007, Gemma has become a most sought-after, East Village local’s favorite eatery and watering hole. Epicurean Italian dishes are created in a casual setting by Chef Chris D’Amico. Located next door to the lobby on the ground floor of the eclectic East Village Bowery Hotel. The always lively eatery and bar is a locals hangout; as well as providing hotel guests with a nearby brasserie-bar vibe.
The unrivaled swagger of Gemma features a vintage décor including a copper bar, wood-beamed ceilings above candle-lit rooms, and jam-packed with a cozy New York allure. The Italian Trattoria serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily, along with a weekend brunch. Comfort food favorites include focaccia with truffle robiola, truffled polenta fries, pappardelle al ragout, and addictive crispy fritto misto.
Parker & Quinn – Refinery Hotel
In the nostalgic Garment District, the Midtown Manhattan Refinery Hotel, Parker & Quinn serves up time-honored breakfast, lunch, dinner, weekend brunch and signature cocktails. Parker & Quinn’s executive chef Jeff Haskell’s tour de force is on classic approachable American fare which lures both discerning locals and out of towners.
The American Bistro serves up chef-driven comforting meals including tempting buttermilk fried chicken sliders with bacon butter with a chili sauce; Korean barbeque pork chops; a 32-ounce Porterhouse for two; squid ink spaghetti with Maine lobster; farm to table salads. As the seasons change, so does Chef Haskell’s menu.
Bob’s Steak & Chop House – Omni Berkshire Place
Since its inception in 2016, Bob’s Steak & Chop House has been a favorite haunt of local Manhattanites and hotel guests. Bob’s continues the rich tradition of a traditional dark and intimate dining experience in a warm, comfortable, sophisticated setting.
The time-honored American steakhouse is a lively hangout where bartenders serve heavy pours and come complete with an extensive wine list and selection of single malts. Exquisite prime cuts of steaks, chops, rack of lamb and seafood, Legendary Bob’s Steak & Chop House ups the guest experience by delivering hand-cut steaks and refined elegance with quality dishes.
Leonelli Taberna – The Evelyn Hotel
Blending classic Italian dishes with old New York charm, in the newly remodeled Evelyn Hotel, Leonelli Taberna is a casual Roman-inspired trattoria by acclaimed Lincoln Restaurant Chef Jonathan Benno and one of three restaurants opened by Benno on the Nomad property. With an open kitchen surrounded by glass and an accompanying sweeping cocktail bar and lounge. Inspired by historic Roman eateries such as Roscioli—a family-owned bakery, café, grocer, and Trattoria dating back to 1824—the menu of rustic Italian dishes utilizes farm to table ingredients, prepared with passionate precision.
As New York’s Roman food revival heats up, the Italian family-fare menu includes the dishes from Benno’s childhood: signature lasagna, eggplant parmigiana, The Tuscan-Florentine T-bone is made for two. Rounding out the main courses are a mouthwatering rotisserie chicken, flaky whole black sea bass also created for two, and juicy pork chops. Italian family-style dishes at its finest.
