NY Best Eateries: Per Se

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Parent Category: Travel Info

Category: Places To Eat

Published on Monday, 15 February 2010 16:57

Written by Brad Balfour

Per Se
Time Warner Building
Columbus Circle

Cuisine: French/American Nouveau
Location: Midtown West

With its ethereal view four stories up overlooking Central Park South, the uber-pricey restaurant Per Se offers ethereal food fare as well. No wonder, since the restaurant was conceived by the much acclaimed chef, restauranteur, and author Thomas Keller -- owner of the Napa Valley based French Laundry, a place often hailed as the best restaurant in the States.

When Per Se debuted in February 2004, Keller knew he had established it as one of NYC's best restaurants in short order. With only 64-seats in the main dining room, a 10-seat private dining room, lounge, bar and remarkable wine cellar (standing like a viewable vault right before the dining area), Per Se suggests both a discreet hideaway and a place of elevated, refined luxury.

Keller's New York presence is maintained by Executive Chef Jonathan Benno, and continues to present Keller's high standards. Those standards include such succulent dishes as Coddled Eggs tipped with Black-Truffle purée and the Chef’s famous “Oysters and Pearls” (Island Creek Oysters, pearly tapioca, Osetra caviar); various unique Foie Gras based creations; and a flight of Lobster Tails poached in butter and painted with a remarkable medley of saffron-vanilla sauce, red-beet essence, or vermouth.

Per Se offers two prix fixe tasting menus--there's a nine-course Tasting of Seasonal Vegetables or the nine-course Chef’s Tasting Menu, which changes daily, in addition to a shorter five-course lunch menu.

From its strict jacket/no-jeans dress code and no walk-ins accepted rule, down to the draping of the white pristine table cloths, Per Se defines the idea of an exorbitant, luxurious dining experience.

Per Se
10 Columbus Circle in the Time Warner Building
212-823-9335

http://www.perseny.com/