Went to the Mark on the Upper East Side - another Jean Georges restaurant, this time on a the Mark hotel. The food, like at Nougatine, had a fresh quality with some creative spins. A little pricy of course, and not huge portions. But still a nice meal with excellent service and beautiful modern ambiance. I think my experience at Nougatine was little better, but partially because here I was on a time crunch.
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| Black truffle pizza with fontina cheese on gluten free crust. I enjoyed this but wished there had more cheese flavor than truffle |
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| Char grilled octopus with potato aioli, celery hearts, oil cured olives. The octopus was well cooked - flavorful yet tender. Didn't love all the accompaniments |
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| Crispy sushi - salmon, tuna, scallop hamachi and tuna. After just having gone to Sushi Nakazawa, of course I was biased. Interesting idea deep frying the rice, but there's something about having the normal white sushi rice that I missed. (also the rice there was amazing). I also found it confusing to eat lukewarm/cold fish on top of very hot rice, which tasted like toast. It almost felt wrong to me |
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| Peekytoe crab cake with pink grapefruit, avocado and ginger. Good but not particularly memorable |
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| Russ and Daughters smoked salmon pizza on "everything" crust. I was psyched to try this because of the combo of R&D salmon and everything crust.. It did not disappoint. I loved the crust! I only wished there had been even more salmon because the crust was somewhat think. Can't tell what the green sauce was though |
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| Sweet pea soup with sourdough croutons and parmesan. Same as at Nougatine and just as good |
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