10/20/09

One of the great restaurants in the world

by Scoop NYC

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

10/02/09

Delicious, but Crowded Feeling

by misstikki

Had lunch at Nougatine during the week with a group of 4. The service and food was very good. The fish dishes (appetizers and entrees) were fresh and delicious. We enjoyed the $26 lunch deal, which entailed two entree/appetizer choices and a dessert. One appealing factor was that you can pick two entrees in the deal vs. the typical appetizer and entree. The portions were on the medium to small side, but well cooked. My only qualm is that the table spacing is very limited. It felt very crowded (like we were on top of one another) and you could hear everyone's conversation (i.e. noisy). Not recommended for a romantic meal.

• Pros: excellent food, good lunch deal, nice service
• Cons: poor table spacing caused very crowded feeling

03/25/09

CONSISTENTLY AMAZING

by NOEL

The greeting is warm + friendly. The room is exqusitely chic, yet understated enough and not glitzy AND you can have a conversation. The setting along Central Park is un-rivalled. The food is consistently divine: superb produce, creatively combined, yet never over-done or weird. The service is impeccable. And all of this happens day after day, year after year, and doesn't look tired. AND the pricing is actually reasonable when compared to many other over-bloated imitators. Quite an amazing feat.

• Pros: Consistency, real value.
• Cons: It is not next door to my home.

02/25/09

Hype. Go elsewhere

by LeeLee74

OK- Maybe it was a bad night BUT my husband and I went here a few months back for his birthday and we were highly disappointed. Not sure what the big whoop is about this place. First the carpet needs to be changed like yesterday Secondly the decor is boring with a capital B. The food was average, not what you expect from a Michelin rated restaurant. The wait staff is average, apparently not trained the real art of fine dining. The experience was average and we will not return, especially for those prices. Trust me, go elsewhere.

• Pros: Near Columbus and Central Park
• Cons: everything else. sorry.

01/23/09

At Best Average all around.... AT BEST AVERAGE

by utafrog

The Food was okay, nothing great. Not a single dish was amazing. Some of the dish was extremely sour. The dessert they serve had a red sauce that was extremely sweet not even edible. The waiters were nice but we were seated next to the kitchen, which was extremely hot around the area. We request if we can be moved further from the kitchen. No seats were available, which I can understand. But once a seat open up they should have given us one of those seat; that just poor service.

• Pros: if you to spend money on okay food.
• Cons: Nothing Special... Save ur money for some place else..

01/15/09

Excellent

by Hartjaeger

Although the ambience is a little bland, the food is anything but--every course was creative, surprising, thoughtful and well executed. The service was attentive but not intrusive. Quite an enjoyable experience.

• Pros: Food, service
• Cons: Ambience

12/07/08

Wonderful Lunch Menu

by Nessa30

Had lunch here with a consultant and the food was absolutely fantastic. Although I did not pick up the bill, the prices looked excellent for the quality and I would definitely go here again.

• Pros: Great Food - beautiful ambiance
• Cons: Waited longer than I would've liked

10/21/08

Cool Restaurant

by henrybcn

The space is really cool - great for a date night and they have an outdoor heated patio too. The food isn't mind blowing (for the most part) but definitely a solid all-around performance, including service. I ordered a great lobster tartine and I usually am not a lover of cake, but the chocolate cake...that actually was a 5 star dessert. The red snapper was perfect.

06/29/08

Dreadful service!!

by Marje

Our daughter treated us to lunch at Jean-Georges. (She had recently enjoyed a fabulous dinner there.) The food was superb! However, the service was horribly slow. We waited about twenty minutes before anyone came to our table (with water), forty minutes before our order was taken, and so one through a long afternoon. Our server might have been new or inexperienced or perhaps just lousy. In any case, he came with our food (finally) but never stopped to see if we needed anything else.

What was truly amazing, though, was the fact that there were many employees there, some of whom apparently were in charge of the room and service. They managed to look right through us as we tried to make eye contact with them. (We really were in need of food and drink!) None of the many employees could bestir himself/herself to ascertain why there were customers sitting at a table for so long without anything to eat. The wait staff certainly was not in the least concerned with the customers.

We had intended to purchase a gift certifcate for friends who often vist New York. Obviously, we would not want to send them to a place where the customer is treated so poorly by the wait staff.

• Pros: excellent food
• Cons: slow, inconsiderate, thoughtless wait staff

04/15/08

Dissappointing food

by Indo67

We were delighted to read the description of each dish on the menu and chose the pre-fix dinner. One of the appetizer was sea-urchin (uni) with lemon and jalapeno. The uni was not fresh, all I could taste was the lemon and the jalapeno. Hoping to get better food for the main course, I was very excited to see the beautiful roll of the crunchy rabbit. My excitement, unfortunately, did not last long. The rabbit was very salty and was inedible. The very cordial waitress saw my barely touched dish and offered another dish. However, I was not interested and hoped that dessert would be better than my first two dishes. Well...

another dissappointment..Hope they have better food very soon...