Was lucky to score a holiday dinner at Corton last night. Overall I thought it was very good. Love the room. Wine list is insane of course (with a huge reserve list where the bottles need to be ordered 24 hours in advance so they can be brought from an off site cellar,) but also includes some decent sub $40 bottles. For instance we started with a Aubuisières Vouvray Sec ‘Cuvée de Silex,’ Loire 2007 which was great and very reasonable. I hate when there's nothing on a list under $60, it's just obnoxious, especially these days - so they got points there. The food highlight for me was some barely cooked nantucket bay scallops with ama ebi (baby sweet shrimp,) marcona almonds, radish, and some spicy microgreen surrounding a small pool of uni creme. Yum!
That dish sounds yummy and that wine is for sure a real wine....
What do you love about the room?
http://www.cortonnyc.com/menu_wine.html
The room is just very comfortable. It's white/minimal but there is enough going on to not be sterile (in particular the white walls are beautiful with raised white on white vegetal patterns.) And they took the tricky (risky?) step of carpeting the floor which seems like it might be gross (with all the traffic and food) but I think does a nice job of keeping the noise down. There are a lot of tables, but it still feels like you have plenty of room around yours. The decor doesn't steal the show, it just works.
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- jim 12-18-2008 10:33 pm
That dish sounds yummy and that wine is for sure a real wine....
What do you love about the room?
- Skinny 12-19-2008 9:16 am [add a comment]
http://www.cortonnyc.com/menu_wine.html
- Skinny 12-19-2008 9:30 am [add a comment]
The room is just very comfortable. It's white/minimal but there is enough going on to not be sterile (in particular the white walls are beautiful with raised white on white vegetal patterns.) And they took the tricky (risky?) step of carpeting the floor which seems like it might be gross (with all the traffic and food) but I think does a nice job of keeping the noise down. There are a lot of tables, but it still feels like you have plenty of room around yours. The decor doesn't steal the show, it just works.
- jim 12-19-2008 3:47 pm [add a comment]