TAO Uptown
Pan-Asian restaurant · Midtown East ·
Stylish Pan-Asian eatery with giant Buddha, offering cocktails
Stylish Pan-Asian eatery with giant Buddha, offering cocktails
"NYC poke spots so rarely serve a large enough portion of fish. But Tao Sushi’s SP2 poke bowl at MSG is appropriately full of spicy salmon and tuna, crunchy veggies, and plenty of sushi rice. Unsurprisingly, the quality isn't going to be on the level of fine tuna flown in from Japan every day. But the fish will taste plenty fresh, the pieces are cut neatly, and all you'll need is just a little drizzle from a soy sauce packet for a well-seasoned bite." - Will Hartman
"Opened in 2000 in a former movie theater on 58th Street, this massive, multi-level venue—nearly the size of a city block and anchored by a 16-foot gilt Buddha—merged nightclub and restaurant genres to create theatrical, party-driven dining that boosted liquor sales and anticipated the spectacle-driven restaurants later amplified by social media." - Bettina Makalintal
"I saw that Tao Uptown is among restaurants that charge reservation deposits (sometimes only during prime times), and that such small fees are often treated as the price of doing business rather than always being applied to the final check." - Melissa McCart
"Tao Group Hospitality, which is entering a partnership with Katz and Rodriguez, is described as one of the biggest restaurant groups in the country — the global group, which sold to Mohari earlier this year, has roughly 30 properties in New York City among 70 worldwide — and its original Midtown Tao opened in 2000 as the group’s first pan-Asian “clubstaurant.” Company COO Paul Goldstein expressed enthusiasm for the collaboration and framed it as bringing Katz and Rodriguez’s hands-on culinary expertise to Tao’s veteran hospitality platform." - Emma Orlow
"Opened in 2000 as the namesake pan-Asian restaurant for Tao Group, Tao in Midtown launched the company’s expansion in New York City and helped establish the group’s global presence, which now spans 70 properties worldwide including 30 in NYC." - Olee Fowler