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Le Cirque

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151 E. 58th St., New York, NY 10022
nr. Lexington Ave.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-644-0202 Send to Phone

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  • Critics' Rating: **

    Key to Prices and ratings

    Upscale
    • Almost Perfect
    • Exceptional
    • Generally Excellent
    • Very Good
    • Good
    Cheap Eats
    • Best in Category
    • Excellent
    • Delicious
    • Very Good
    • Noteworthy
    • Very Expensive
    • Expensive
    • Moderate
    • Cheap
  • Reader Rating:

    3.7 out of 10

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    7 Reviews | Write a Review

  • Cuisine: French
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Official Website

lecirque.com

Hours

Mon-Fri, 11:45am-10:30pm; Sat, 5:30pm-10:30pm; Sun, closed

Nearby Subway Stops

4, 5, 6 at 59th St.; N, R, W at Lexington Ave.-59th St.

Prices

$43-$56

Payment Methods

American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

  • Dine at the Bar
  • Hot Spot
  • Lunch
  • Private Dining/Party Space
  • Prix-Fixe
  • Special Occasion

Alcohol

  • Full Bar

Reservations

Required

Profile

The new Le Cirque sits on the bottom floor of the Bloomberg corporate headquarters and looks out over an impressive stone courtyard surrounded by a curving façade of glass and steel. The antic color scheme of Le Cirque 2000 has been replaced by a look that is sleeker, more formal, even funereal. It feels restrained, even a little subdued, a place designed less for glamorous celebration than a hushed business lunch. Conflicts between old and new are evident on the menu. It's been pared down from its previous baroque, Eurocentric form and is dotted now with chic Greenmarket references to "vine-ripened organic" tomatoes and bluefin tuna caught, in the proper Slow Food manner, on "hook and line." Nouveau delicacies like langoustines doused with curried ginger and Kaffir lime coexist with elderly favorites like sole meunière. The best entrées at the new Le Cirque tend to be the safe and stolid ones as well, the dependable kind of big-ticket items favored by elderly plutocrats with settled tastes and fat pocketbooks. — Adam Platt

Prix-Fixe

Three-course lunch, $39

Tasting Menu
Six-course dinner, $135; paired with wine, $185

Dress Code
Jackets are required for gentlemen in the dining room

Wine Lounge
According to owner Sirio Maccioni, the lounge "is a more casual side of Le Cirque, with chaise longues and where no jackets are required. We wanted to offer something, in our lounge, without all the rigueur of the dining room.”

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3.7 "Not Recommended"
Average Reader Rating
on a Scale of 10		 Write Your Own Review
14% Would you go back?
28% Would you take a date?
0% Would you take kids?
14% Would you go on business?
14% Would you go on a special occasion?
Food: 5.3
Service: 3.4
Décor: 6.6
Value: 3.6

Service was atrocious

Elliebels from 10009 | Posted on 7/13/09

Overall Rating: 1 (Not Recommended)
Food: 7
Service: 1
Décor: 7
Value: 4

Went here for restaurant week. Group of 6 young professionals. Not sure why they participate in restaurant week as the waiter made us feel inferior by talking condescendingly to us and hovering around us in a hostile manner in between guffawing and laughing in our faces throughout our meal. Despite receiving a very generous tip, our waiter proceeded to insult us on our way out. I will never return here nor would I recommend anyone to go.

Disgusting

Chris1314 from 12538 | Posted on 3/11/09

Overall Rating: 1 (Not Recommended)
Food: 5
Service: 1
Décor: 7
Value: 1

Went for a special occasion and got treated like absolute dirt. Waiter was ignorant and evasive. Service was sloppy at best. Food was decent (for that money it should be amazing). Never in my life have I been treated with such disrespect.

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