Le Salon Vert

First Taste: The Food and Cafés at Printemps NYC

"A second-floor raw bar–slash–café tucked into a corner of the new Parisian department store on Wall Street, it serves light, genteel, mostly lunch-y fare: oysters, a gingery crab rémoulade, a petite salad dressed with nuoc chom vinaigrette and tiles of lightly pickled rhubarb, and shrimp flambéed with both horseradish and habañero. The setting feels pleasantly secluded from the surrounding financial district and fits the department-store tearoom tradition of salads and small plates meant for shoppers lingering between appointments." - Matthew Schneier