The Zodiac Room

"Yes, the name of this restaurant sounds like a serial killer, but there are actually Zodiac Rooms in a dozen or so Neiman Marcus stores around the country. This is where you go before, after, or in the middle of a day of shopping, and it’s known for serving delicate little popovers with strawberry butter - you’ll get one when you sit down. It’s also one of the few restaurant spaces in Hudson Yards with a view of New York (and not the Vessel), and the dining rooms are nice enough to accommodate royalty. As long as you’re comfortable paying $38 for a (great) lobster club, you’ll probably like it here a lot." - Hannah Albertine

"Helen Rosner writes in the New Yorker that the Zodiac Room inside Hudson Yards’ Neiman Marcus is the only restaurant in the luxury shopping mall that actually feels like New York City. “It knows exactly who its customers are: mostly women, mostly luxury shoppers, and those of us who wish to spend a meal pretending to be one,” she writes. It also embodies chef Helen Corbitt and her original Zodiac Room in downtown Dallas’ Neiman Marcus, Rosner writes. She calls the Hudson Salad — with shaved raw vegetables, avocado, and apricots in a ginger miso dressing — “the store’s answer to uptown’s ubiquitous chopped salads” and describes it as “crisp and light, with flashes of sweetness.”" - Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

"The Neiman Marcus store planned for the Hudson Yards development project will also contain a fine dining restaurant called the Zodiac Room. It is slated to open March 15." - Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

"A classic restaurant from Neiman Marcus: For more than 50 years, fancy department store Neiman Marcus’s flagship Dallas location has had a swanky restaurant called the Zodiac, and at the Shops, the company is recreating the classic restaurant as the Zodiac Room. It’s best known for being a destination for the ladies-who-lunch crowd, serving salad, sandwiches, and caviar, and the location in New York follows through with big banquettes, blue tones, and the famous popovers that the restaurant has been serving for decades in Texas." - Serena Dai