Fulton

Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s The Fulton Opens Soon at Pier 17

"Perched on Pier 17 in the newly rechristened Seaport District, I found Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s bilevel piscatory tribute to the old Fulton Fish Market, and he honors the site’s history—recalling how he began patronizing the market in 1986 and leaning on Gilbert Le Coze’s insistence that “the small boats leave in the morning and come back by noon” to ensure peak freshness. Under executive chef Noah Poses the menu is a mix of raw and cooked seafood, including Florida-red-snapper crudo with rhubarb and avocado, buckwheat-crusted redfish, a fritto-misto salad with pickled cherry peppers, crispy seafood rice with paprika aïoli, yellowfin-tuna tartare with yuzu-mustard sauce, seared Carolina tilefish with leek-turmeric emulsion, wild-striped-bass crudo with habanero vinaigrette, and warm octopus with fresh mozzarella, while raw materials like Boston mackerel, grey sole, sardines, and pufferfish are on display. With more than 200 seats—half outdoors—the views are predictably stunning, and dinner service was slated to launch in early May, with lunch and alfresco lobster rolls promised to follow." - Grub Street