Forbidden City
New York, NY 10009
Phone: (212) 598-0500
- Cross Street:
- 13th Street
- Directions:
- L at 1st Ave.
- Hours:
- Sun, Tue-Thu 6pm-3am, Fri-Sat 6pm-4am
Message from Forbidden City
Come check out the newly renovated Forbidden City
- happy hours everyday from 6-9
- birthday and events
- for events click below
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Editorial Review for Forbidden City – by Diane Mehta
The Scene
This sleek Asian lounge entices with soft lighting, sea-blue walls and niches filled with art and artifacts. An oblong bar dominates the lounge in front, where the welcoming owners keep the sake and liquor flowing. A laughing Buddha separates the bar-lounge from the comfortable, matter-of-fact dining area in back.
The Food
The kitchen here whips up ample, greaseless portions of Asian tapas and dim sum for a mixed crowd. Preparations are minimalist and delicately flavored. Salt-dusted Atlantic salmon comes infused with lemongrass and ginger; aromatic Chilean sea bass and monkfish are succulent inside and seared on top. Chin Chan vegetables include savory caramelized onions, sweet-and-supple red peppers and musky grilled eggplant. Carnivores can indulge in Korean-style short ribs, beef tataki or pork loin. Also tempting are tempura eel, seasoned baby octopus and Malpeque oysters.
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User Reviews for Forbidden City
01/07/2008 Posted by holleratanerd
I had my 30th Bday party here in Dec. It was between Forbidden City and another asian influenced restaurant/lounge venue. The reason I chose FC, and so glad I did, was for 2 reasons: 1. Cost - great dinner and many drinks, $60 pp 2. Manager - Ron As most of you are aware, birthday dinners get expensive. Not just the dinner, but primarily the drinking. And at most of these venues with fun cocktails the cocktails are $10 a pop or more... FC not withstanding... BUT... Ron (night mgr) worked with me on a HAPPY HOUR RATE on the cocktails for a few hours - $7 Stoli cocktails rather than $10!!! He was very accomodating and just reassured me that we would have a great time. And we absolutely did! Plus the food was inexpensive and delish. And its the perfect food for a bday party that was going to continue all night since they have mostly light dishes and a great selection of dumplings & apps. MUST GET THE CALAMARI! The venue itself is more restaurant/bar then restaurant/lounge with a casual fun asian decor and bar nightlife. They allowed us to have fun without being all pretenious and stuffy like I knew the other more upscale venue would be. So that is why I'm SOOO GLAD we went with FC and I had an GREAT BDAY!
Pros: Price and Friendly Staff
Cons: Only 2 bathrooms and weekends are busy
11/17/2007 Posted by iris_sky
first time coming there ,looked it up on the net ,great reviues ,wanted to try it..My friend loved the music as soon as we got in,had reservation so were seated promtly. I guess they are short on staff , it took a lil while for the food to come but it was delicious( the smoked duck,friend had a chicken salad ,!!!! i had the short ribs (liked it a lot ), just as someone mentioned ,portions are small but yummy).They had my faivorite beer which gets me soooooooooo drunk :ASAHI, huge bottles .They have it by my house in these huge cans too ,so i was extra happy). Very nice waitreses(one with highlights, and the taller one too), when we had a lil problem with our order , they brought out these shots of apple tequila, without question to make up for the problem ,plus eventually they took the drinks of the tab, great people that really know how to run a business( i want to say thank you guys!). Music was really good , a bit loud and thats exactly how i like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. atmosphere rocks ,small portions but goes well with liquoer .More of a bar than a restaurant and if you look at it like that be prepared to drink ~! good times.
Pros: everything
Cons: short on staff,but its ok
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