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Asiate
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Hours
Mon-Fri, 7am-10:30am, noon-2pm and 5:30pm-10pm; Sat, 7am-11am, 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:30pm-11pm; Sun, 7am-11am, 11:30am-2:30pm and 6pm-9pm
Nearby Subway Stops
1, A, B, C, D at 59th St.-Columbus Circle
Payment Methods
American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Special Features
- Breakfast
- Brunch - Weekend
- Business Lunch
- Hot Spot
- Notable Chef
- Prix-Fixe
- Romantic
- View
Alcohol
- Full Bar
Reservations
Recommended
- Make a Reservation with opentable.com
Profile
Asiate might be sequestered inside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, but its appeal extends way beyond tourists. Chef Nori Sugie trained in France and Japan, cooked at Charlie Trotter's and Tetsuya's in Australia, and has an enviable backdrop for his French-Japanese fusion: Central Park from 35 floors up. What's on the plate is pretty absorbing. Sugie’s menu is so filled with eye-widening surprises, Asiate could seat folks on the Time Warner Center’s loading dock and Sugie would still rank as the most exciting new chef in town...In a room of gleaming, resplendent minimalism, from a menu that stoically reveals no more than it has to, on plates that make Takashimaya’s wares appear gaudy, Sugie’s cote de boeuf with roasted rib-eye and smoked potato, duck confit and seared foie gras floating luxuriantly in Peking-duck broth, and pressed suckling pig with trotter croquette and pig-cheek confit are so intoxicatingly, belly-slappingly hearty, you’re almost sorry for not savoring them in a saloon. The decadent, soothing, and beautifully presented chocolate fondant with rasberry granite is a perfect compliment to the restaurant's dazzling views of Central Park.
Prix-Fixe MenuDinner, $79; Tasting-menu, $100; Two-course lunch, $24; Bento box lunch, $25-$38.
Brunch
Sat-Sun, 11:30am-2:30pm
Related Stories
New York Magazine Reviews
- Hal Rubenstein's Full Review (1/19/04)
Best of New York Awards
- Best Rasberry Granité (2004)
- Best Fowl (2004)
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