YAO Modern Cantonese Cuisine 富瑤
Restaurant · Financial District ·
Modern Cantonese cuisine with signature dim sum and fresh seafood
Modern Cantonese cuisine with signature dim sum and fresh seafood
"The Financial District Cantonese restaurant is offering its special Lunar New Year menu as well. These include stir-fried angus beef tongue with peppers; braised black moss and fried oysters in abalone sauce; and braised tofu in pumpkin broth. It’s available through Wednesday, February 12." - Nadia Chaudhury
"Far downtown on Pearl Street, this hotel dining room is an offshoot of August Gatherings, and both restaurants seek to elevate Cantonese cuisine to its highest level yet. Expect lots of abalone, sea cucumber, truffles, duck, whole fish, Berkshire pork, Dungeness crab, organic mushrooms, and steak. There are six preparations of whole fish alone, running from purely Cantonese (with scallion oil) to wildly creative (the one with tangerine peel)." - Robert Sietsema
"Stephanie Wu notes that this upscale Cantonese restaurant is tucked, somewhat disconcertingly, within a Courtyard by Marriott hotel in the Financial District. To get to the restaurant, you walk through the lobby and take the elevator to the second floor, where the decor becomes much more befitting of a banquet-style Chinese restaurant. Here, many of the dishes are conceived with theatrical flair and great for wowing a crowd. Don’t miss the lobster mapo tofu, which is presented with the lobster body, and mixes the lobster meat with velvety tofu and well-balanced Sichuan spices." - Eater Staff
"This dressed-up Chinese restaurant is tucked away on an upper floor and it’s worth seeking out for its menu of dim sum, abalone, chef’s specials, duck, beef, lamb, pork, chicken, and fish. Whole sea perch occupies an entire menu category, such as one served with chiles ($68). Pair an order with greens and a dumpling dish at the bar or invite a group and pre-order a Dungeness crab or Beggar’s Chicken a day ahead." - Eater Staff
"I went to Yao (opened earlier this year by the team behind August Gatherings in Chinatown) and found a spacious, dressed-up second-floor dining room and an ambitious menu of dim sum, abalone, chef’s specials, duck, beef, lamb, pork, chicken, and fish. The restaurant has tanks, so the seafood is quite fresh; I ordered a whole sea perch (whitefish) served with chiles ($68), which was delicate and mild. Pair it with greens and a dumpling dish at the bar, or invite a group and pre-order a Dungeness crab or Beggar’s Chicken a day ahead." - Eater Staff
