Joo Ok

The 21 Best Korean Restaurants In NYC - New York - The Infatuation

"If you can’t bring yourself to spend $500 on a meal at Atomix—or have trouble snagging a reservation—Joo Ok is a great alternative. Designed to look like a traditional Korean home, complete with a communal garden area, the restaurant serves an 11-course tasting on the 16th floor of a building on 32nd Street. The $190 meal revolves around bite-sized portions of flawless seafood with unique, assertive broths and sauces. Picture geoduck with perilla seed oil, langoustine four ways, and lobster in a silky foam made of pine nuts grown upstate. That lobster’s fantastic, but it’s the foam that’ll stick with you after your three-hour dinner." - bryan kim, kenny yang, willa moore, will hartman