ODRE
Korean restaurant · East Village
199 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10003
Highlights
Korean prix fixe tasting menu with creative dishes
Korean prix fixe tasting menu with creative dishes
"Given this Korean restaurant's swanky monochrome space, Odre's $42 four-course meal feels like a pretty good deal. It includes a daily soup, seasonal banchan, and dishes like cuttlefish salad and tender beef shank. The best part is the bansang course: some banchan, plus soup and rice from a couple of cast-iron gamasot." - bryan kim, molly fitzpatrick, willa moore, will hartman, sonal shah
"Situated in East Village, Odre offers a set menu of comforting Korean flavors with refined dishes such as asparagus and lobster in pine nut sauce and grilled duck with endive." - MICHELIN Guide
"A prix-fixe tasting-menu restaurant that was added to the Bib Gourmand list." - Melissa McCart
"At the East Village’s elegant pre fixe restaurant Odre, you’re going to be eating a three-course meal of Korean food made from local, seasonal ingredients with subtle and endearing twists. In the cold open (by this I mean, the first course, which is served cold), you might start with the refreshing (yes, you read that right) sesame chicken in mustard sauce, or the hwe platter with scallop, conch, and yellowtail in a bath of chojang. Next comes the warm appetizer—choose between the mung bean fritter with kimchi, mushroom, and pecorino cheese and the snow crab mandoo, or dumpling. The main event is ever changing, with such offerings at present as steamed monkfish and beef shank. You wouldn’t be able to get a bad bite in edgewise here, so don’t labor over your order too hard, and the limited menu’s brevity makes it all the easier to take a risk and try something new on at least one course. It’ll run you $42, plus an additional $12 for whatever dessert they’ve got that day if you’re keen (mine, a watermelon ice, was absolutely worth it) while drinks can also be ordered a la carte. —Charlie Hobbs, associate editor" - CNT Editors
"An East Village Korean restaurant under the Hand Hospitality umbrella offering a $42 prix-fixe menu." - Melissa McCart
