The Restaurant at Gilder

American restaurant · Upper West Side

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The Hardest Restaurant to Get Into Is One You’ve Never Heard Of | Eater NY

"Getting in was a hassle: the restaurant sits on the second floor of the museum and requires both an AMNH ticket and a Resy reservation, and I arrived about 15 minutes late after fighting long lines, a maze of galleries, and a blocked subway entrance — the staff were fortunately very accommodating. Inside it feels like a fishbowl with no exterior windows (museum-goers pressed their noses against the glass as if we were another diorama); the interior is relaxing, with brown paneled walls, a honeycomb ceiling, and well-spaced tables. We were served a vodka bloody mary ($16) almost immediately. Of the three apps, the best was a salad of baby heirloom carrots ($16) with feta and toasted pistachios on a bed of beet hummus; the tomato soup, drizzled with coconut milk and tasting of basil, veered toward a Campbell’s-like familiarity; the Caesar kissed with anchovies was creamy and shareable. Kids seemed to favor the avocado toast and dads the grain bowl. Among entrees, the $34 hanger-steak frites (medium-rare) with garlic-scape chimichurri was solid but outshone by excellent french fries, while a standout was twists of gemelli pasta in a fresh-pea pesto dotted with mushrooms, asparagus tips, and spinach — a lively farmers-market-driven combination that didn’t scream “healthy.” The most memorable item was the vegan raspberry panna cotta ($14): a coconut-milk pudding presented like a terrarium, topped with microgreens, edible flowers, crunchy freeze-dried raspberries, fresh raspberries, and edible white-chocolate butterflies — it looked almost machine-conceived but tasted great." - Robert Sietsema

https://ny.eater.com/2023/6/26/23772870/the-gilder-natural-history-museum-nyc-review

200 Central Prk W, New York, NY 10024 Get directions

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