Skip to content, or skip to search.
Skip to content, or skip to search.
Home > Restaurants >
- PROFILE
- READER REVIEWS
- MENU
Talay
|
701 W. 135th St.,
New York, NY 10031
|
|
Official Website
Hours
Daily, 5:30-midnight
Nearby Subway Stops
1 at 125th St.; 1 at 137th St.-City College
Prices
$15-$25
Payment Methods
American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Special Features
- Bar Scene
- Hot Spot
- Notable Chef
- Design Standout
- Teen Appeal
Alcohol
- Full Bar
Reservations
Accepted/Not Necessary
- Make a Reservation with opentable.com
Profile
When you dine at Talay, don’t give the cabbie the exact address, unless you want to spark a heated debate about its geographic existence. Instead, direct him to Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, then disembark a couple blocks north, where a 1926 West Harlem freight house has been converted into a dining destination that has yet to land on New York’s collective taxi-driving radar. Give it time: Talay, a Thai-Latin duplex with a morphing colored-light scheme and a bottle-service lounge upstairs, is the latest arrival on a slowly emerging restaurant row that Realtors have dubbed Viaduct Valley, or ViVa—home to Dinosaur, Hudson River Cafe, Covo, and the pioneering Fairway. Talay’s kitchen is about as big as co-chef King Phojanakong’s entire first restaurant, Kuma Inn, and turns out such savory fare as lemongrass-garlic baby back ribs and Szechuan-pepper-crusted New York strip.
Related Stories
Featured In
- Restaurant Openings: Talay and Shalizar (6/16/08)
| 1.5 | "Not Recommended" Average Reader Rating on a Scale of 10 |
 |
BAD BUSINESS. UNPROFESSIONAL.
soulmindandbody from 85041 | Posted on 8/11/09
| Food: | (NA) |
| Service: | (NA) |
| Décor: | (NA) |
| Value: | (NA) |
Out of state, and planning a party. Catering manager and restaurant mangers are unprofessional and don't return calls or emails. Obviously, they don't need the business. Shame.... my guest list is for 150. I was hoping the bad reviews on several other websites were untrue. I was wrong.
Horrible, horrible night scene and bar
abedneg06 from 10029 | Posted on 5/2/09
| Food: | 1 |
| Service: | 1 |
| Décor: | 7 |
| Value: | 2 |
The exterior and workmanship of the outside that was done by the developer and owner are nice particularly when comparing to the environment. The bar is a full bar and the servers somewhat know how to prepare the overpriced drinks. The service is deplorable for the night life upstairs. Don't expect to have a good night after spending $200 at the bar or restaurant which I did with my wife and 2 of our friends from graduate school. Talay is doing so poorly in this recession that they will twist your arm to pay an extra $25 cover to dance with the ghetto trash that are let upstairs. Don't waste your time with this place. Dinosaur BBQ down the street or the real Meathpacking district are better scenes and you deal with higher class people.
Advertising
Latest News
Latest News Near
Popular Restaurant Guides
-
Where to Eat
Adam Platt picks 2009’s top dining destinations,
including Dovetail, Momofuku Ko, and Corton. -
Best of New York Food
The best that the city’s restaurants have to offer:
paella, coffee, grilled cheese, ramen, and more. -
The Cheap List
We live in a city full of small cheap-eats miracles,
including $1 foods, Korean fried chicken, and burgers.
Behind Tim Burton's MoMA Retrospective
How Nicholas Coppola Became Nicholas Cage
Brooklyn's Wild, Prospering Music Scene
Zach Gilford on Leaving Friday Night Lights
Nine Winter Fashion Trends 
Fake Buyers Are Back at Open Houses 
Look Book: The Mixed Martial Arts Fighters 
Elevated, Reinvented Italian Basics at A Voce
The Times Journalist Too Big To Fail
Can NBC Be Saved? 
Bloomberg's New Political Challengers
