The 29 Best Theater District Restaurants - New York - The Infatuation

"Unlike its faux-rustic parents CheLi and Szechuan Mountain House, Blue Blossom leans into Midtown glitz. It's a great option for a group meal nearer Bryant Park, with elaborate cocktails, and a long, crowd-pleasing menu that mixes and matches regional specialties, as well as twisting its Shanghainese and Sichuan cuisine DNA in dishes like mala beef xiao long bao. Go ahead and follow crispy-skinned Peking duck with the excellent sour-and-spicy fish soup. Just save space for the crispy black buns gushing with salted egg yolk lava." - bryan kim, sonal shah, will hartman, molly fitzpatrick, ciera velarde, arden shore