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Now that Charlie Palmer's restaurant has reopened at One Bryant Park, it’s divided into a 64-seat bar room (with a glass-enclosed “wine mezzanine” atop it), a 54-seat dining room, a 60-seat private dining room, and just for good measure there’s terrace seating on a pedestrian walkway connecting 42nd and 43rd Streets. Designer Adam D. Tihany is said to be going for “townhouse intimacy” via dark carpeting, brown leather chairs, and brown roman shades in the dining room, but this is a much sleeker reincarnation. If this all seems familiar, you might be thinking of Le Cirque’s rebirth in the Bloomberg building — Tihany designed that space also, with a similar amount of seats. Here’s hoping Aureole doesn’t have the rocky reboot that Le Cirque did. One big difference: Charlie Palmer switched his chef before the move, and Christopher Lee should be able to hit the ground running. — Daniel Maurer