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Tick-tack lunch

February 19, 2017 by ETat

I’ll tell you  how to enjoy NY Restaurant Week: choose places with min of (4) $-signs to their name. The price is set (although it grew from $25 to $29 for lunch this year), but a good Chef will be a good Chef even on unaccustomely small allowance – and you’ll get a chance to see the insides of a restaurant that is normally out of your league.

That’s how, years ago, I enjoyed my birthday dinner at Jean-George (yep, at one of Trump NY buildings). And that’s how me and a colleague went to a Clocktower at – you guessed! – Metro Life building with its enormous clock atop the tower, the one that gives Madison Park on 23rd St its Deco energy and charm. Personal anecdote – every architect/designer have similar after few years of working in this city: ~15yrs ago the new owners of the building considered converting the top 20-25 floors of the Tower into hi-end apartments, and gave our office some seed money to develop preliminary space planning. We went to survey, then shared with engineers the original base building drawings. I still remember the floor plans, especially of the 25-27, where the clock takes about a quarter of the floor plate. Naturally, when we were in the middle of design process, the owners changed their mind and sold the place to someone else – too bad. Another project that “might have been”.

But I digress.

Everything you read at the links above is true: the hotel entrance is exquisite, the spiral stair – spectacular, the restaurant decided in the posh club style, and the food is superb. If you’re a young Asian golddigger looking for hunting grounds, I highly, highly recommend The Clocktower. Two very imposing gentlemen at neighboring table, having a quick bite before cocktail hour someplace else were made of money, I could tell.

Picture worth a 1000 words, so  – see for yourself!

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Posted in 2017 | Tagged gourmet, New York, photos, travel | 8 Comments

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  1. on February 19, 2017 at 4:03 pm barbro

    очень атмосферное место

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    • on February 19, 2017 at 4:07 pm ETat

      ага. там был full house! это при меню, где салат стоит $20, антре – $30, а счёт за ланч – близко к сотне

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  2. on February 19, 2017 at 4:53 pm Fiona

    Все очень приятно, кроме этого синего спасательного круга на потолке. Мне кажется, это не вяжется с общей “клубной” обстановкой и лепниной.

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    • on February 19, 2017 at 4:59 pm ETat

      А и не должно вязаться, а то слишком серьёзно и скучно было б, навроде трамповской золотой квартирки. Ну представьте вместо -этой – хрустальную люстру в 200 ламп и 500 подвесок – пошло, Фима!
      Потому же и бильярдное сукно – не традиционно-зелёненькое, а наглого цвета фуксии

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  3. on February 21, 2017 at 10:14 pm Fiona

    Бильярдное сукно я оценила, но над ним висит того же цвета плафончик, и вместе это очень хорошо. Синий круг, однако, выпадает. Но chacun a son gout, как говорят наши друзья французы.

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    • on February 21, 2017 at 10:26 pm ETat

      Синий круг мне скорее нравится, он даже наоборот, гармонизирует практически куб комнаты. Вот эти грубые чёрные держалки из чугуна – перегиб. Я бы, наоборот, привесила круг на невидимых тоненьких стальных тросиках, чтобы светил как нимб…

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  4. on February 22, 2017 at 10:23 pm CGHill

    “If you’re a young Asian golddigger looking for hunting grounds…”

    Okay, I laughed at that.

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    • on February 22, 2017 at 11:34 pm ETat

      I’m glad!

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