Amanda Y.
Google
I almost never leave Google reviews, but I'm here to warn you not to waste your money at this restaurant. The dining room experience of this place was a sham - Manhattan date night prices for a poorly improvised menu and service. Our evening was pretty summed up by an early discovery in the restrooms: the Aesop soap bottles displayed for luxury vibes are clearly refilled with Dial soap.
"West Village" location - it's on the West Side Highway.
The dining room: white tablecloths, candlelight, and water served in wine glasses... but DJ equipment in the corner? Our server was lovely, dressed in a suit to signal the elevated dining experience we were about to receive, but then a woman bussing tables nearby was in light wash jeans and a tank top.
The food was truly a rip-off. The Caesar salad dressing was basically just mayonnaise, the lemon caviar spaghetti was about 3 bites of noodles with half a thimble of caviar, the mushroom main course was a plate full of yum yum sauce topped with 6 mushrooms. The papardelle was barely sauced at all. 3 appetizers and 3 mains came to $172 before tip, but it was nowhere worth that. Wait, was this supposed to be Mediterranean food?
We ordered one of the two bottles of red wine on the menu - a Bordeaux. It wasn't available, so the server presented an alternative Bordeaux. Same price? Fine, looks great. On the itemized receipt, they had just put in "Open Drink" and manually typed in the price to match the bottle I'd initially ordered. Could have simply been because the new bottle wasn't added to the POS yet, but after the rest of the experience, I just felt suspicious they gave us a cheaper bottle for the same price - unverified, so take this with a grain of salt.
A burlesque dancer entered the packed dining room toward the end of the meal and attempted to squeeze between tables to put on a mini show with no stage. She was lovely, and sure, we're down for a surprise show, but it was really a strange addition to what they were trying to sell as a fancy dinner (this was in the main dining room, not the Desire room).
All in all a strange and disappointing experience, I don't know what they're doing in the kitchen, but the prices on the menu absolutely do not reflect the quality of food they're serving. At least we got a good story out of it. Just go somewhere else for dinner.