Metropolis by Marcus Samuelsson

"An ultra-glamorous restaurant located in the Perelman Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan, focusing on polished comfort foods." - Tierney Plumb

"Located inside the new $500 million Perelman Performing Arts Center near One World Trade is celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson’s newish restaurant. As the name suggests, the restaurant takes New York City itself as inspiration, hoping to approximate the various boroughs’ culinary traditions, remixed in a fine dining context, such as an oyster dish nodding to Flushing." - Eater Staff

"Metropolis is an event. The FiDi restaurant from Marcus Samuelsson is located near the World Trade Center, on the first floor of a new half-billion-dollar performing arts center covered entirely in Portuguese marble. To get here, you have to walk up a grand flight of stairs and pass through a metal detector, at which point you’ll find yourself in a sprawling room with Tron-like light fixtures darting across the ceiling. It’s a flashy place, with an equally flashy menu that tackles everything from smoked hamachi tacos to a whole dover sole with ssamjang. Not every dish is a home run, but everything is, at the very least, memorably ambitious." - neha talreja, will hartman, bryan kim, willa moore

"It's not enough to open a restaurant these days—you must open a Metropolis. The newest restaurant from Marcus Samuelsson, the chef behind Red Rooster and Hav & Mar, is an all-day spot at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in Fidi. And it’s the latest in a growing list of upscale restaurants that claim New York City itself as inspiration (see Tatiana, Torrisi). You’ll find things like a lavish vegetable platter, smoked hamachi tacos, oysters with XO sauce, and a separate lobby lounge called Wine Barre. We checked out Metropolis. Read our first thoughts here." - Will Hartman, Willa Moore

"Christmas Eve features a night of live jazz and Metropolis’ first Feast of the Five Boroughs. Chefs Marcus Samuelsson and Ed Tinoco cook up a five-course tasting with dishes like oysters and pearls (Manhattan); an Astoria Greek salad; red snapper and pierogies (Brooklyn); and a Dominican sundae (Bronx), for $125 per person." - Eater Staff