Seeds & Weeds is a plant-based place that is billed as serving “boundary-defying” vegan and vegetarian food in a beautiful room incorporating sustainable materials and with views of the Brooklyn Bridge. Unique, hearty and at that price good value. Brasserie is described as an ode to Jean-Georges’ childhood the escargot was part of our banquet and is superb (US$24) as was a surprise dish, a gruyere cheeseburger with a puff pastry bun, green chilli mustard and fries for US$28.
It serves Chinese-inspired dishes and gives a good guide to what sort of prices you’ll pay fragrant pork and shrimp wontons in chilli oil go for US$18 while roast duck in a honey soy glaze, pickled vegetables and seasoned buns is US$60 – before tips. The Tin Building invites guests to “expand their culinary horizons” on a continuous journey with a total of six full-service restaurants, six quick-service counters, four bars and a private dining room, where our group enjoyed what felt like a never-ending banquet of the highlights.Īmong the restaurants is The House of the Red Pearl, through curtains and tucked away with a clandestine feel. It’s been described by one food industry publication as “arguably the single most expensive and ambitious dining project in the history of this restaurant-mad city”.
And it’s not the noisy, buzzing street-level dining you’ll find elsewhere.īut you can’t help but be impressed by the scale of what was a labour of love for Jean-Georges and his development partners The Howard Hughes Corp. During a US$300 million rebuild, it was moved piece by piece 10m back from any encroachment from the East River (with some new structural additions.) It has a freshly painted feel to it, as you’d expect, as it was only opened in September 2022. The Tin Building was originally built in 1907.
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