Joomak

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"Chef Jiho Kim’s West Village restaurant — the second iteration of his former one-Michelin-starred Koreatown spot Joomak Banjum — impressed inspectors and was added to the recommended list." - Erika Adams

"Hidden away on the second floor of a ritzy residential hotel in the West Village is this jewel box of a dining room. With just a handful of tables, the modern setting feels like a luxurious living room, one fit with a fireplace, marble accents, and finely suited servers. Chef Jiho Kim offers a contemporary tasting menu that has touches of whimsy. Playful riffs on an everything bagel with salmon or a tuna smashburger are interwoven with refined stunners like dill custard with white asparagus and Meyer lemon beurre blanc. From scallops to king crab, it must be said that the quality of seafood is notably high. Desserts are a particular strength. Intimate, confident, and relaxed, dinner here is an experience to savor." - Michelin Inspector

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"The eight playful, loosely Korean-inspired courses served at this West Village restaurant are completely distinctive—they wouldn’t appear on any other tasting menu. You can expect luxury at Joomak, sure, but you can also expect fun: a gochujang tuile envelope full of furikake to crack open and season your kani miso koshikari rice with, Harry Potter-inspired butterbeer ice cream, and otoro camouflaged as a doll-sized cheeseburger." - bryan kim, willa moore, neha talreja, molly fitzpatrick, will hartman

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"One of the most interesting tasting menus in New York City is hidden inside a hotel on the West Side Highway. Joomak, which serves eight playful, loosely Korean-inspired courses for $280, prizes novelty as highly as luxury. Each bite crosses unexpected wires, like a mandarin granita spiked with chili oil, or a miniature otoro "cheeseburger." It's a very good choice for a spendy special occasion, where you can rest assured you won’t be bored." - bryan kim, will hartman, sonal shah, molly fitzpatrick

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"Finding your way into Joomak feels a little like you’ve double-crossed your capo and are about to be whacked. The restaurant is all the way over on the West Side Highway, inside the Maison Hudson hotel, and getting there involves being escorted by a staff member down an elevator and through a series of hallways. The small dining room, with around two dozen seats, is almost anticlimactic: an elegant but generic space that looks the same as it did in its previous incarnation as a French restaurant. But Joomak’s eight playful courses are completely distinctive. They wouldn’t appear on any other tasting menu. photo credit: Andrew Sokolow photo credit: Andrew Sokolow photo credit: Andrew Sokolow photo credit: Andrew Sokolow photo credit: Andrew Sokolow Pause Unmute You'll find langoustine in gochujang bouillabaisse and a palate-cleansing mandarin granita spiked with chili oil, but the food is not, as your server explains, "strictly Korean." Instead, each dish crosses unexpected wires, to frequently electrifying results. Otoro appears camouflaged as a cheeseburger, and a graceful quenelle of ice cream turns out to be a Harry Potter-inspired butterbeer. Anything involving dough in sweet or savory form is excellent—the chef (also behind Joomak Banjum, Ddobar, and Bar Whimsy) used to do pastry at The Modern. Here, he reprises that restaurant’s pretzel croissant in miniature form, a three-dimensional butter sculpture barely held together by a load-bearing framework of flour and salt. So many tastings prioritize luxury, but Joomak stands out for putting an equal emphasis on novelty.  That makes it a very good choice for a spendy special occasion, where you can rest assured you won’t be bored. Food Rundown Tasting Menu Joomak offers an eight-course tasting menu for $280. An optional wagyu supplement is another $80. Dishes may change, but here are a few highlights from our last meal: Amuse Bouche A trio of miniature tributes to iconic NYC sandwiches include a meringue-textured everything bagel with king salmon and a banh mi reimagined with wagyu and uni. Both are good, but the doll-sized otoro “smashburger” is a particularly brain-tickling illusion—one of the best bites of the entire meal. The combination of nori choux bun, fatty tuna, and egg yolk gelée captures the smoky richness of a chargrilled burger (specifically, a Burger King Double Stacker). This is the kind of behavior that used to get you accused of witchcraft. photo credit: Andrew Sokolow Caviar And Dill Custard Spring in a bowl. Chunks of white asparagus, sweet mussels, and pea shoots are suspended in a dill custard that gets greener as you stir. Tasting it is like walking through a meadow close enough to the seaside you can smell the salt spray. The caviar is, somehow, the least interesting component. (Not that we don’t appreciate it.) photo credit: Molly Fitzpatrick Scallop A very nutty brown butter sabayon is applied tableside on top of a crisply seared scallop, which itself rests on pretty little blobs of smoked dashi and black sesame panna cotta, some of which wear little discs of black truffle as hats. It’s umami on umami on umami, but all those layers of savoriness feel anything but redundant. photo credit: Andrew Sokolow Norwegian King Crab Crack open a delicate gochujang tuile envelope and sprinkle the furikake inside over a bowl of kani miso koshikari rice. The grains have a lovely chew, and they’re bursting with the kind of powerfully crabby flavor you can only achieve by putting roe, brains, and all the other hidden treasures of the carapace to good use. photo credit: Andrew Sokolow Banana Bread Pudding This dessert initially appears to be a little foamy glass of Guinness. It's the evening’s second interactive tuile moment: Shatter the chocolate shell with your spoon and creme anglaise flows out, combining with milk chocolate sorbet in a melty, swirling, baking-spiced tide pool around a cylinder of moist banana bread. No two wonderful bites are the same, especially once you involve the salty, toffee-ish butterbeer ice cream on the side. photo credit: Andrew Sokolow" - Molly Fitzpatrick