(212) 299-3900

1 Central Park W (60th Street and 61st Street)
New York, NY 10023 40.7685 -73.9815

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Neighborhoods: Central Park, Midtown

jean-georges.com/

Hours:

Mon-Thu 12pm-2:30pm

5:30pm-11pm

Fri 12pm-2:30pm

5:15pm-11pm

Sat 5:15pm-11pm

Price:

$$$$

Last updated 9.01.11

Category:

Restaurants

Payment Methods:

American Express, Visa, Discover, Diners Club, MasterCard

Restaurant Special Features:

Hotel Restaurants, Special Occasion Dining, Fine Dining, Outdoor Dining, Notable Chef, Business Dining, Notable Wine List, Prix Fixe Menu

Cuisine:

French, Seafood

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What People Are Saying About Jean Georges

Featured Review

Erin Behan

Contributor

The Scene – In the rarefied world of fine French cuisine, few compare to Jean Georges' New York star. From the meal's palate-tingling amuse bouche opening to the parting gift of boxed chocolates, every moment feels effortlessly choreographed. The precise service still manages to be friendly, and the dining room's buzz proves that the financially well-endowed don't always live up to their stuffy stereotype. – – The Food – Chef Mark Lapico and his team prepare all the fare to exacting standards. Dainty, flavorful sea scallops find their soul-mate with sweet caramelized…

Editor's Tips

Prix Fixe:
Diners choose either from a three-course ($98) or seven-course ($148) prix fixe menu.
What to Drink:
The wine list is extraordinary and bottles can run into the thousands, but the list also includes selections under $100 from most regions. Glasses range from $10 to $69.
Look Good:
The formal dining room requires a jacket for men, while the more informal restaurant Nougatine, which shares a space with the bar, is smart business attire.
Know Before You Go:
Know that the restaurant is located in the ground floor of the Trump Plaza, right next to Columbus Circle.
ambiance
71.88000202178955% positive
  1. Second, the chairs are really comfortable.
  2. The decor is elegant yet simple, and the waitstaff has impeccable timing.
  3. Seating was not as comfortable as cushion needs replacement.
  4. The food is o.k. at best, the ambience is nice, not spectaular, service is good, and the portions are miniscule.
  5. The minimalist decor was a big disappointment (nothing to write home about--the ground floor entrance to the impersonal steel bar leads to a plain dining room with traffic views) but the food was worth writing volumes (especially the foie gras with sour c
  6. The room was a beautiful, elegant nineteen fifties style and very private and comfortable.
  7. The only negative thing I have to say about this place is that the decor is so not impressive at all.
  8. My heading sums it up--the food is fantastic, the service is top-notch, the ambience is classy without being stuffy.
  9. Obviously the ambience is less intimate and a little less formal in the Nougatine Room, but I personally found both eating experiences enjoyable.
  10. Although the ambience is a little bland, the food is anything but--every course was creative, surprising, thoughtful and well executed.
  11. went to JEAN-GEORGES last night and i don't have words to describe my experience, well the food is amazing, the service is helpful and the ambience is a four star, the price is a little high but !
  12. Sitting close to the full view kitchen was a mixed blessing.
  13. Not recommended for a romantic meal.
  14. Incredible experience: Exceptional service, food impecable, atmosphere takes breath away
  15. Oh, and the bathrooms are tiny, so expect a wait, and the decor is cold and dull.
  16. The tables have very comfortable chairs and mini-couches surrounding them.
dessert
83.33000183105469% positive
  1. Order the chef's Winter or Summer tastings (or both for $125 each)and be prepared for ENDLESS unique and varied courses, including the signature Egg Caviar (caviar, whipped cream and vodka all in a special blown egg.)
  2. ordered a great lobster tartine and I usually am not a lover of cake, but the chocolate cake.
  3. The deterioration would not deter me from going back but the last few dishes were not as good: a raw, tough squab and ordinary or outre desserts (sometimes beets should not be used in eveything).
  4. The seasonal list of delectable dishes enticed us to go for four courses plus dessert and thus we were able to sample most of the menu.
  5. The minimalist decor was a big disappointment (nothing to write home about--the ground floor entrance to the impersonal steel bar leads to a plain dining room with traffic views) but the food was worth writing volumes (especially the foie gras with sour c
  6. The dessert was phenomenal as well (chocolate theme is the best) This place is most definitely worth every penny!
  7. had the tasting menu, best in the city, lovely cheese platter, great desserts !
  8. As for the desserts, the chocolate theme is the best among all.
  9. Really wonderful, prompt, efficient service (they brought over a surprise dessert for me because it was my graduation), and the food is astounding course after course.
  10. enjoyed the desserts, especially the playful marshmallow squares.
  11. We chose a very nice Portuguese Blanc which complemented our dishes well and lasted all the way to dessert.
  12. The appetizers and desserts are mediocre at best and there are hardly any bottles of wine for under around $70.
drinks
81.82000160217285% positive
  1. The staff had great timing in taking care of us and observed waiters slowing some assitants so the wine stewart had time with the patrons.
  2. Bad, bad bar service
  3. My wife and I enjoy really fine cuisine, wine and impeccable service, but we also like to be satisfied when we dine out.
  4. We did have a warm and helpful sommelier who guided us to very good wine choices.
  5. SUGGESTION - two half bottles of wine was perfect for two people & the seven courses.
  6. Server was very knowledgeable and wine list was reasonable.
  7. Very good wine list and knowledgeable staff.
  8. The appetizers and desserts are mediocre at best and there are hardly any bottles of wine for under around $70.
  9. Whats impressive about this restaurant is more than food, wine and serviceeverything at Jean Georges has a slight edge and precisely controlled: flower arrangements, background music (played in perfect volume), design of servers uniforms, plates, silverwa
  10. The minimalist decor was a big disappointment (nothing to write home about--the ground floor entrance to the impersonal steel bar leads to a plain dining room with traffic views) but the food was worth writing volumes (especially the foie gras with sour c
  11. There were flashes of brilliance in the food, especially in the cleverly imaginative (and very exciting) scallops in the winter seasonal menu and in the subliminal introduction of heat/spice in several of the starting dishes (chilli in the mushroom tea wa
food quality
86.3599967956543% positive
  1. went to JEAN-GEORGES last night and i don't have words to describe my experience, well the food is amazing, the service is helpful and the ambience is a four star, the price is a little high but !
  2. food is amazing (well, what do you expect) and it's not overly stuffy as some fine dining restaurants can be at times.
  3. Order the chef's Winter or Summer tastings (or both for $125 each)and be prepared for ENDLESS unique and varied courses, including the signature Egg Caviar (caviar, whipped cream and vodka all in a special blown egg.)
  4. The food was superb!
  5. Overall, this place is overrated and way to expensive for the quality of food.
  6. Although the ambience is a little bland, the food is anything but--every course was creative, surprising, thoughtful and well executed.
  7. As was the Arctic char which is quite interestingly prepard with avocado, black beans and other interesting tastes.
  8. The food was consistently good.
  9. Not memorable food and average service for an exorbitant price
  10. have to say that both the food and the service were excellent in both the main dining room and the Nougatine Room.
  11. The food is consistently divine: superb produce, creatively combined, yet never over-done or weird.
  12. There were flashes of brilliance in the food, especially in the cleverly imaginative (and very exciting) scallops in the winter seasonal menu and in the subliminal introduction of heat/spice in several of the starting dishes (chilli in the mushroom tea wa
  13. The food tasted good but not consistently excellent.
  14. Service is always exellent, the sommelier is very helpful, and of course, the food is superb.
  15. The food is o.k. at best, the ambience is nice, not spectaular, service is good, and the portions are miniscule.
  16. The food was as good as I remember it, with professional service.
  17. The food wasn't that wonderful.
  18. The uni was not fresh, all I could taste was the lemon and the jalapeno.
  19. The service and food was very good.
  20. The minimalist decor was a big disappointment (nothing to write home about--the ground floor entrance to the impersonal steel bar leads to a plain dining room with traffic views) but the food was worth writing volumes (especially the foie gras with sour c
  21. The best French food in NY!
  22. Whats impressive about this restaurant is more than food, wine and serviceeverything at Jean Georges has a slight edge and precisely controlled: flower arrangements, background music (played in perfect volume), design of servers uniforms, plates, silverwa
  23. The staff is extremely friendly and attentive as well as highly knowlegeable on the subject of haute cuisine.
  24. Even the very good sauce with it didn't make the dish appealing.
  25. The food was absolute perfection!
  26. Great food.
  27. While it is possible for people to have occasionally a bad experience in any restaurant, Jean Georges is unquestionably the best NYC restaurant when it comes to contemporary french cuisine.
  28. At the end of the meal, unbidden, our waiter brought a Happy Anniversary treat - assortment of chocolates and candies on a candle lit tray.
  29. Jean-Georges, HIMSELF, actually greeted us just before our departure and enquired as to whether we enjoyed our meal.
  30. My wife and I enjoy really fine cuisine, wine and impeccable service, but we also like to be satisfied when we dine out.
  31. The fish dishes (appetizers and entrees) were fresh and delicious.
  32. On balance the food was good, but far from flawless.
  33. Not a single dish was amazing.
  34. Service was attentive but I was very disappointed when a hair is attached to the bread.
  35. love the food there.
  36. There are many famous New York restaurants that are totally overrated, which make foreign visitors say, Americans dont know anything about food.
  37. Hoping to get better food for the main course, I was very excited to see the beautiful roll of the crunchy rabbit.
  38. My heading sums it up--the food is fantastic, the service is top-notch, the ambience is classy without being stuffy.
  39. Unfortunately, the food was NOT very good at all.
  40. The deterioration would not deter me from going back but the last few dishes were not as good: a raw, tough squab and ordinary or outre desserts (sometimes beets should not be used in eveything).
  41. Sometimes its just nice to dress up and go to a fancy restaurant, sit in a beautiful room, have good service, excellent food, and really enjoy one of the culinary jems of our city!
  42. The seasonal list of delectable dishes enticed us to go for four courses plus dessert and thus we were able to sample most of the menu.
  43. The food was wonderful.
  44. The food is perfect & the staff unobtrusive.
  45. Food is alwasy tasty, but the service takes away from it.
  46. Not recommended for a romantic meal.
  47. The waiter, service, & food were simply outstanding.
  48. The best food I have ever had, amazing and gracious service.
  49. We chose a very nice Portuguese Blanc which complemented our dishes well and lasted all the way to dessert.
  50. The roasted sweetbreads with grilled pear and lemon puree was a great dish but the pear somewhat overwhelmed the overall taste due to inadequate seasoning of the sweetbreads.
  51. The food was very good.
  52. While the head waiters are knowledgeable and explain the menu and individual dishes, they start coming off like used car salesmen, lacking in sincerity.
  53. The food had wonderful flavors and was perfectly prepared.
  54. Really wonderful, prompt, efficient service (they brought over a surprise dessert for me because it was my graduation), and the food is astounding course after course.
  55. The quality of the food such as the fish and meats is outstanding.
  56. Mr. Vongerichten's ability to incorporate ingredients from around the world and create the most unique and delicious plates rightfully deems him one of the top chefs worldwide.
  57. Such a lovely restaurant, with superb food and friendly accomodating staff - so nice to have a dining experience where people seem to actually care.
  58. The beef was very good as well, though my companion, who also got the tenderloin, got a much fattier cut and did not enjoy it as much.
  59. It is definitely an "experience" restaurant, where you go to try out unique food, enjoy good service, and make a night out of it.
  60. The first taste was an amuse-geule of squash soup, which was stunning, and the meal pretty-much kept the pace.
  61. Incredible experience: Exceptional service, food impecable, atmosphere takes breath away
  62. Had lunch here with a consultant and the food was absolutely fantastic.
  63. The creativity and presentation of the food is beautiful.
  64. can honestly say that every single plate brought to me, the food was absolutely delicious.
  65. It know that it is hard to always synchronize plates when a restaurant is full of diners but my expectations are very high in this restaurant and I attribute the less-than-perfect temperature of some dishes to a routinization of the lunch service that mig
  66. went to Jean Georges the other night with my fiance and had the most amazing meal of my life.
menu variety
100.0% positive
  1. We did have a warm and helpful sommelier who guided us to very good wine choices.
  2. have to say after dining at Jean Georges with 6 friends every one of us left hungry and the only one who truly enjoyed their selection was my wife and one other woman, they both had a scallop appetizer and lobster entree, which were actually quite good.
  3. While the head waiters are knowledgeable and explain the menu and individual dishes, they start coming off like used car salesmen, lacking in sincerity.
  4. The $125 dinner tasting menu was decent, but certainly nothing to write home about.
  5. The seasonal list of delectable dishes enticed us to go for four courses plus dessert and thus we were able to sample most of the menu.
  6. The service was very helpful in explaining the menu and giving reccomendations.
  7. Highly recommend the tasting menu (we had the seasonal one).
  8. had the tasting menu, best in the city, lovely cheese platter, great desserts !
  9. There were flashes of brilliance in the food, especially in the cleverly imaginative (and very exciting) scallops in the winter seasonal menu and in the subliminal introduction of heat/spice in several of the starting dishes (chilli in the mushroom tea wa
  10. does it mean only chicks go there who knows but the classic tasting menu still is amazing.
overall
93.75% positive
  1. This is my favorite restaurant for all time.
  2. While it is possible for people to have occasionally a bad experience in any restaurant, Jean Georges is unquestionably the best NYC restaurant when it comes to contemporary french cuisine.
  3. Seriously, in such a nice restaurant, I find it hardly acceptable to be expected to wait 10 minutes to use the bathroom!
  4. Vong is great JG restaurant, too.
  5. Sometimes its just nice to dress up and go to a fancy restaurant, sit in a beautiful room, have good service, excellent food, and really enjoy one of the culinary jems of our city!
  6. The dessert was phenomenal as well (chocolate theme is the best) This place is most definitely worth every penny!
  7. As much as others might say that Alain Ducasse is the best French place in town, JG beats it hands down
  8. This is the best restaurant I have ever experienced!
service
76.71999931335449% positive
  1. The staff had great timing in taking care of us and observed waiters slowing some assitants so the wine stewart had time with the patrons.
  2. The food is perfect & the staff unobtrusive.
  3. SUGGESTION - two half bottles of wine was perfect for two people & the seven courses.
  4. have to say that both the food and the service were excellent in both the main dining room and the Nougatine Room.
  5. Whats impressive about this restaurant is more than food, wine and serviceeverything at Jean Georges has a slight edge and precisely controlled: flower arrangements, background music (played in perfect volume), design of servers uniforms, plates, silverwa
  6. The greeting is warm + friendly.
  7. love this restaurant and i always will, but the service has definitely taken a wrong turn.
  8. The service is impeccable.
  9. The staff, very friendly and accomodating.
  10. The service was very helpful in explaining the menu and giving reccomendations.
  11. Sometimes its just nice to dress up and go to a fancy restaurant, sit in a beautiful room, have good service, excellent food, and really enjoy one of the culinary jems of our city!
  12. Amazing service.
  13. As always, the servers were friendly and assertive.
  14. At the end of the meal, unbidden, our waiter brought a Happy Anniversary treat - assortment of chocolates and candies on a candle lit tray.
  15. While the head waiters are knowledgeable and explain the menu and individual dishes, they start coming off like used car salesmen, lacking in sincerity.
  16. Very good wine list and knowledgeable staff.
  17. The food was as good as I remember it, with professional service.
  18. It know that it is hard to always synchronize plates when a restaurant is full of diners but my expectations are very high in this restaurant and I attribute the less-than-perfect temperature of some dishes to a routinization of the lunch service that mig
  19. But once a seat open up they should have given us one of those seat; that just poor service.
  20. Really wonderful, prompt, efficient service (they brought over a surprise dessert for me because it was my graduation), and the food is astounding course after course.
  21. Such a lovely restaurant, with superb food and friendly accomodating staff - so nice to have a dining experience where people seem to actually care.
  22. Service was attentive but I was very disappointed when a hair is attached to the bread.
  23. hate snootiness, especially from service people - she needs to understand that she JUST makes reservations - she is a NOBODY.
  24. The waiter, service, & food were simply outstanding.
  25. The service is solicitous and efficient, without an ounce of attitude, and the prix-fix lunch one of the great deals in the city.
  26. The best food I have ever had, amazing and gracious service.
  27. Definitely a good "experience restaurant", but snooty hostess
  28. While it is possible for people to have occasionally a bad experience in any restaurant, Jean Georges is unquestionably the best NYC restaurant when it comes to contemporary french cuisine.
  29. Bad, bad bar service
  30. went to JEAN-GEORGES last night and i don't have words to describe my experience, well the food is amazing, the service is helpful and the ambience is a four star, the price is a little high but !
  31. The food is o.k. at best, the ambience is nice, not spectaular, service is good, and the portions are miniscule.
  32. However, the service was horribly slow.
  33. called to make reservations and the reservationist or hostess (Margarita) was so snooty, she almost made me want to cancel my reservation.
  34. My heading sums it up--the food is fantastic, the service is top-notch, the ambience is classy without being stuffy.
  35. It is definitely an "experience" restaurant, where you go to try out unique food, enjoy good service, and make a night out of it.
  36. Not memorable food and average service for an exorbitant price
  37. The service was just average for a top notch restaurant: cold & robotic.
  38. Dreadful service!
  39. The service was absolutely impeccable, no detail was spared.
  40. The service is absolutely amazing.
  41. All the glasses were refilled promptly, the silverware replaced after each course, and the staff was friendly, knowledgeable, and efficient.
  42. The staff was more than attentive.
  43. The service was mostly excellent and very attentive.
  44. The staff is extremely friendly and attentive as well as highly knowlegeable on the subject of haute cuisine.
  45. The waiters were nice but we were seated next to the kitchen, which was extremely hot around the area.
  46. The service is great and so polite.
  47. would suggest to the reader that there are many wonderful restaurants in Manhattan with courteous and polite service, but Jean Georges is not one of them.
  48. The service was not so great.
  49. Simply incredible, excellent service and refined, yet unique setting.
  50. Jean Georges is : more comfy than Daniel, cheaper than Per Se, better service than Le Bernardin.
  51. The service and food was very good.
  52. Incredible experience: Exceptional service, food impecable, atmosphere takes breath away
  53. The service was attentive but not intrusive.
  54. My wife and I enjoy really fine cuisine, wine and impeccable service, but we also like to be satisfied when we dine out.
  55. Food is alwasy tasty, but the service takes away from it.
  56. However, I still feel like our waiter is a bit snooty underneath all that politeness.
  57. The bartenders (except for a female) are extremely rude, cold and unattentive.
  58. The service was so incredible, nothing I'd ever seen, even better than Daniel.
value
88.24000358581543% positive
  1. The food is o.k. at best, the ambience is nice, not spectaular, service is good, and the portions are miniscule.
  2. Jean Georges has enough rich and famous customers that they don't need your money.
  3. Great value lunch
  4. Overall, this place is overrated and way to expensive for the quality of food.
  5. The Merlot was great despite the low price.
  6. AND the pricing is actually reasonable when compared to many other over-bloated imitators.
  7. Also the portions are excellent.
  8. The minimalist decor was a big disappointment (nothing to write home about--the ground floor entrance to the impersonal steel bar leads to a plain dining room with traffic views) but the food was worth writing volumes (especially the foie gras with sour c
  9. The dessert was phenomenal as well (chocolate theme is the best) This place is most definitely worth every penny!
  10. Although I did not pick up the bill, the prices looked excellent for the quality and I would definitely go here again.
  11. The service is solicitous and efficient, without an ounce of attitude, and the prix-fix lunch one of the great deals in the city.
  12. Not memorable food and average service for an exorbitant price
  13. The value was amazing, $28 for two courses and $8 for pudding.
  14. For a special occasion where price and value are not a problem, I highly recommend Jean Georges.
  15. The only negative thing I could ever find is the huge neon ad across the Columbus Circle beams at you if your seat faces that side of the window.
  16. had a foie gras appetizer, I love foie gras, this one did not impress, there were too many veines running through it and it was roughly the size of silver dollar.
  17. went to JEAN-GEORGES last night and i don't have words to describe my experience, well the food is amazing, the service is helpful and the ambience is a four star, the price is a little high but !
wait time
50.0% positive
  1. However, the service was horribly slow.
  2. Seriously, in such a nice restaurant, I find it hardly acceptable to be expected to wait 10 minutes to use the bathroom!
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

08/22/10

Marble Lite

by Marble Lite at Citysearch

Respect to MARBLE LITE, INC. that keeps the marble floors/walls in the #1 restaurant in NY shiny and beautiful. Best food experience i had.

5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

12/26/09

Best Restaurant Experience Ever!

by gerardiux at Citysearch

Absolutely my favored restaurant in the city. Service, Decor, Atmosphere, Food, presentattion, Wine, everything top noth! Also the portions are excellent.

Jean George is the King of New York Chefs!

  • Pros: Mind blowing Experience
  • Cons: Can only go once in a while
2 Star Rating: Below Average

12/14/09

Surprisingly uneven

by tbrax at Citysearch

I had not eaten at JG in several years and was looking forward to my recent visit tremendously. I was, disappointingly, underwhelmed by the evening. There were unquestionable high points: the broth on the black sea bass was extraordinary, and the turbot was also very very good. The amuse bouche featured a duck confit with a ravioli that was outstanding.

But the meal as a whole was disappointinly uneven, and just as there were high points there were low points. The crispy rabbit was, in essence, a rabbit mcnugget. Even the very good sauce with it didn't make the dish appealing. Several of the desserts were disasters: the deep fried pumpkin pie on the "spice" dessert menu was so heavily salted as to be inedible and the pastry under the apple tart was dense and mushy.

At this price point and given the restaurant's reputation I had expected much better.

  • Pros: Creativity
  • Cons: Lack of Consistency
3 Star Rating: Average

11/13/09

Good but not Great, more like Michelin 2-star

by calchung at Citysearch

I dined here back in Sept. Service was attentive but I was very disappointed when a hair is attached to the bread. Staff just replaced it without apology, a Michelin 3-star should do better than this. The food tasted good but not consistently excellent. Other than the Egg Caviar, presentation of plates was simple, not artistic or creative enough. Soup was flavorful but salty. Very Good Scallops though. Lobster was tender but lack texture of freshness. Squab was over-cook not med-rare as it should. Excellent dessert though. Seating was not as comfortable as cushion needs replacement. Very good wine list and knowledgeable staff. I'd rate JG overall a B+. I felt this is a Michelin 2-star, not as memorable as my 3-star experience else where. Better value to dine in the main area at Nougatine

  • Pros: Wine, dessert
  • Cons: no apology after hair is found in food
5 Star Rating: Highly Recommended

10/20/09

One of the great restaurants in the world

by Scoop NYC at Citysearch

I can't really add much to the superlatives about the food. It's wonderful. So I'll focus instead on two points that aren't often addressed in reviews I've read.

First, despite the high overall costs, this restaurant is quite a value. The $98 dollar menu brings four courses rather than the usual three and all of them are good sized. That might not matter much to small women but for a large man like me, it's nice not to walk out of a big dinner feeling hungry.

Second, the chairs are really comfortable. This may sound like a minor point, but it's not. When you're settling in for what can easily be a three-hour meal, you can only enjoy it if you're comfy. A shocking number of top dining spots don't seem to understand this.

My one critique: The decoration in the dining room is beginning to look both warn and dated. It's probably time for a refresh.

  • Pros: Incredible food, excellent service, great value
  • Cons: decor beginning to look worn

The Details on Jean Georges

Place Categories:

  • excellent average service
  • superb french food
  • best jean georges restaurant
  • bad bar service
  • friendly accomodating staff
  • best meals
  • big fabulous dinner
  • great desserts
  • divine extra course
  • helpful sommelier
  • dull decor
  • outstanding corn ravioli
  • nice waiter
  • extremely friendly cuisine
  • great jean georges
  • cold bartenders
  • very knowledgeable servers
  • like french place
  • very comfortable chairs
  • delicious plates
  • overrated place
  • amazing classic tasting menu
  • flavorful squash soup
  • wonderful experience
  • cold top notch restaurant

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