Norma's Restaurant At Le Parke
(212) 708-7460
118 W 57th St
New York,
NY
10019
40.7644
-73.9779
Neighborhoods: Midtown, Clinton
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The Scene
This brightly lit, well-appointed restaurant on the ground floor of the Parker Meridien Hotel, serves the most over-the-top breakfast in town. Handsome baritone Nordic waiters patrol the room, proffering fresh-squeezed juices and $4-a-person pots of French press coffee. The restaurant is popular with the hotel's visitors, along with local business people who use it to entertain clients.
The Food
Norma's glorifies traditional breakfast food almost to the point of non-recognition, with dishes like mango-papaya brown butter cinnamon crepes, foie gras brioche French toast and a shrimp, tomato and egg white frittata big enough to feed a family of four. Though many of the dishes seem unnecessarily embellished and presentations occasionally outstrip flavor, this is nevertheless a food experience that any well-off-enough New Yorker should try at least once.
User Reviews
NewYorking
June 19, 2009
I had brunch here last weekend and loved it. There are so many options for vegetarians. I had the egg quesadilla and my husband had chicken. Both were excellent. The pancakes on our neighbor's plate looked yummy too. I highly recommend this place for brunch. The only drawbacks are: the place is too expensive, too full of people hence a long waiting time, and open only till 3pm. Fresh juice is served in tall glasses and costs $9 each which is very expensive. You don't order the juice, the waiter comes and asks to pour it in your glass. For a moment I thought that it comes with the brunch, but there is no free lunch so... $18 for two it was.
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moorzic10
May 19, 2009
I am a big foodie person and love to go out to eat...This past Sunday, I made to Norma's for Brunch. I was very excited as I read all this wonderful things about the place. How dissapointed was I....First of all, they had no alcohol.. which is fine but kind of weird at the same time..Brunch and no Bloody Mary??? Second, I asked for Lobster mac cheese, well apparently, they dont serve it on Sundays..Hmmmmmm..ok. we ordered french toast with fresh fruits and eggs benedict...Eggs were overdone and were not even runny.. the french toast had fruits but not the fresh ones.. it felt like, someone took a huge serving of jam and I mean huge and poured over the toast.. and then the bill comes.. they served us for coffee that was already on the table...as well as for oj which looked to be compemtary as we did not order it.. Anyways, for 100 bucks plus tip, you can enjoy bruch as Sarabeth with cocktails and much better food...Skip this place.
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754597287
February 09, 2009
I am a big fan of the Burger Joint, and I have been to Norma's a number of times for business breakfasts. The service is always slow to non-existent, but my experience on Saturday topped it all. After being seated at 2pm (not exactly the height of the brunch rush), no one even came to our table for 10 minutes. After the parade of 10 minute waits between the water server, the orange juice server, and the coffee server, I finally flagged down the host and asked that someone come to our table to take our order (we'd been in our seats for a total of about 40 minutes by this point). We ordered the extremely complicated eggs benedict and mushroom omelet. 45 minutes and 5 glasses of orange juice later, we realized that it was 3:30 and we had neither received our food nor seen our waiter since he took our order. Annoyed that our plans for the afternoon were almost completely ruined, we stood to leave. Low and behold, the second we stood with our things, the waiter appeared! He begged us to stay and told us that he had spoken to the manager, who would "take care of everything." I told him that we had afternoon plans and had not intended to spend so long waiting. Another gentlemen then showed up with our food, put it on the table, and practically pushed us to sit down and eat. Against my better judgment, I did. I asked for the check immediately, explaining our rush. Another 30 minutes (and disappearing waiter, manager, or anyone inclined to acknowledge our presence), the bill came. Not one item had been comped by management, and when I asked to speak to the manager, I was told that he was unavailable. I don't mind splurging on a $65 brunch, but this one was insulting. There are too many fantastic restaurants in the city to waste your time and patience on an establishment that does not realize that the economy is not its friend right now. I could get more attentive service at Burger Heaven - the next time, I'll suffer their over-priced meals instead.
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