It’s a perfect snacking, drinking and chatting app.
Eight two-bite pieces of baklava ($18) are jubilantly springy and savory with flavorful, prudently salty haloumi, adorned with a vibrant shower of crushed pistachios. The dinner menu starts small but shareable. It also keeps the long hours expected of its genre, opening at 8am with borekas, Jerusalem bagel sandwiches and eggs for breakfast, and adapting to the mealtime of day until 11:30 on peak nights. It would be as good anywhere, untethered from any naturally traveler-oriented conceit, but, aside from the notable friendliness of everyone I’ve encountered here, it escapes any tourist trappings. This is New York City’s best new hotel restaurant in the last several years, and it wins a high spot among the few true finest in the category overall.
#LASER WOLF FULL#
There are three dining areas: the sleek, lofty, tri-sided chef’s counter to the left behind the host desk, what feels like the main dining room to the right, and the verdant adjacent atrium that’s full of foliage and natural light diffused through its glass panels. It’s warmly appointed, with soft, soothing hues and polished, beach house themes. The large Israeli restaurant shares some style notes with its PA predecessor. A great place you can simply visit? For spring? Groundbreaking! Mild situational Twilight Zone vibes aside, this apparent disturbance in the balance of public and media fondness for a destination relative to its objective goodness in such clear display is ultimately the restaurant-goer’s gain. And, although it is even better than its lovely and oft-praised upstairs related neighbor, you can actually get a table, more or less whenever. K’Far, another Philly follow, debuted in the hotel’s sunken lobby level last November with a considerably lower hum ever since. That edition of chef Michael Solomonov’s Philadelphia original of the same name, however, still made it to my list of NYC’s best new restaurants of 2022, which says as much about its broad appeal in the dining room proper, booked at a rather early or quite late hour, still with sensational, unlimited babaganoush, gigantes, hummus and warm, ideal pita, as it does about last year’s contenders. Having once waited more than two hours as a drop-in, to be seated at the bar, facing away from the notable view, for agreeably-fired skewers and a wonderfully abundant assortment of salatim, I still couldn’t, in good conscience, advise that anyone else follow that particular tack, then or today. You can now dine on a Saturday night more than two weeks from press time, for example, but not before 11:15pm. Almost 12 months later, availability is still stuffed nearly to the margins. On opening day we made quick work of her pistachio sticky bun, but plenty of other options beckon in this department as well, including chocolate rugelach, pecan cake, and several varieties of savory stuffed borekasim.When Laser Wolf opened on the 10th floor of Williamsburg’s Hoxton hotel last May, it set off a chain reaction of accolades that virtually filled its reservation slots clear across the calendar. until late at night), and you’ll definitely want to order at least one of chef Katreena Kanney’s pastries to complement whatever else you’re having. There’s some spillover between the breakfast and lunch menus (the kitchen never closes here you can get a full meal or a snack from 8:00 a.m. As such, even though there are at least 150 seats here, reservations for all meals are recommended.
No matter how you use it, K’Far is another big winner from the CookNSolo/Boka team, one of those exceptionally rare hotel restaurants that can be considered destination-worthy for those of us who live in the city. It’s designed to be a chill spot to nosh and drink and sit and chat and maybe run into some friends and then - why not? - eat some more. One of several K’Far dining areas (Scott Lynch)
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