Off the Menu
The restaurant on the 47th floor of the Marriott Marquis in Times Square is reopening under the management of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group.
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The View
Forty years ago when it opened, the Marriott Marquis boasted the city’s only revolving restaurant and bar: It has kept the title. The restaurant on the 47th floor with a bar and lounge on the 48th are in motion again, reopening under the management of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group. Extensive renovations by Rockwell Group evoke supper clubs and cigarette holders. But the food will taste less retro than it looks with a menu by Marjorie Meek-Bradley that shows up at street level everywhere, with a seafood tower, crab cake, tuna carpaccio, Caesar salad, burger, bone-in rib-eye and, among the cocktails, espresso martini. (Opens Wednesday)
Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway (46th Street), theviewnewyorkcity.com.
Hildur
The last time France met Scandinavia at the table might have been at “Babette’s Feast.” Now Emelie Kihlstrom and Elise Rosenberg, who opened Colonie in Brooklyn Heights in 2011, are displaying Ms. Kihlstrom’s Swedish roots on the menu and applying a French veneer. (The restaurant bears her grandmother’s name.) Their executive chef, Brennan Taulbee, tops onion soup with rye bread, Comté and leeks; bases gougères on rye flour; and introduces Swedish meatballs with frites to au poivre territory. The authentic vintage interior has 72 seats with another 72 in the garden shaded by the Brooklyn Bridge. It was previously Gran Eléctrica. (Friday)
5 Front Street (Old Fulton Street), Dumbo, Brooklyn, 718-852-2700, hildurbk.com.
Meili
The chef Peter He established Chili in Manhattan with food amplified by the requisite numbing Sichuan spice. Now this native of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, is about to make eyes and mouths water in Williamsburg. Chongqing spicy chicken, red-style Chongqing braised fish, braised beef tendon, dan dan noodles, spicy cumin mushrooms, even mala braised bullfrog are featured along with vegan choices. Most of it nods to street food until you hit the mapo lobster with tofu and truffled beef. The restaurant, accented with good luck red, is on a lower level of the Coda hotel, with a catwalk to the dining room. (Wednesday)
160 North 12th Street (Bedford Avenue), Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 516-960-1936.
Cactus Wren
Here’s a wine restaurant with a name that doesn’t tip its hand. The cactus wren is the state bird of Arizona and nods to Tucson, the hometown of Sam Clonts and Raymond Trinh, the owners of this sibling to their Sixty Three Clinton nearby. The diverse food menu is long on seafood: raw, marinated and in preparations like oyster po’boy Dutch babies and lobster pot pie. Landlocked pizzas feature toppings with chicken livers, mortadella and pineapple.(Wednesday)
98 Rivington Street (Ludlow Street), 929-923-6998, cactuswren.nyc.
Chatti
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