The Best NYC Restaurants For A Birthday Dinner - New York - The Infatuation
"For an old-school, Art Deco, escargot-and-Burgundy night out, choose Le Veau d’Or and your three closest friends. Open since 1937, the Upper East Side restaurant is currently run by the Frenchette team, and they serve a $125 prix fixe with fantastic duck magret, île flottante, and frogs legs. It’s essentially an intimate supper club cosplaying a Parisian bistro, complete with checkered tablecloths and servers in pinkish chore coats. Le Veau d'Or releases reservations online at 9am, two weeks in advance. According to the restaurant, walk-ins are only accepted on the "super rare occasion" of a no-show or last-minute cancellation. Up front, there's a five-seat bar, where they've recently started offering a la carte dishes. The bar can usually only accommodate walk-ins on the earlier side, before it's filled with parties waiting on their tables. It's easier to get a reservation for more than two people, and we've had good luck using notifications." - will hartman, bryan kim, neha talreja, sonal shah, molly fitzpatrick, willa moore
