Headed to NYC from CA early Dec. Have reservation for tasting menu at Corima and looking for recco for Sat dinner. Leaning towards modern American, fusion. Budget around 100$ pp Not v interested in Italian , Japanese or Chinese (unless interesting fusion) Husband is pescetarian so need to cater to that. We’re staying midtown but anywhere in Manhattan is good. Trying to lure him to Brooklyn but having trouble !ry, please click the ‘Add Location’ button to enter the address, so your topic shows up in the Topic Map.
Fusion with what?
100 incl tax & tip – with or without drinks?
Foxface Natural, Claud, come to mind
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without drinks tax tip
fusion meaning mix of cuisines - could be any mix, though prefer not chinese or japanese but openminded. Don’t ever hear much of fusion involving italian so not sure that even counts.
thank you
Lower price is fine too 
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If seafood is your groove, we had a very nice meal here: https://www.oceanarestaurant.com/
If you can convince your peeps to go to Brooklyn, we also loved Leland.
If you stay away from the dishes tagged “MP,” Claud’s newest spot upstairs, Penny, is an amazing seafood restaurant. It’s all at a counter. I took my fish/seafood loving daughter there a couple of months back, and we are still talking about it. Like Claud, wines by the glass tend to be expensive here, but the fish/seafood is top notch.
Thanks for that list.
We just booked Luthun for our Dec trip - completely missed our radar!
This is exactly what you’re looking for:
Looks amazing TY. Am going to try it if we can reserve.
Luthun looks very good too but when I called they told me their tasting menu is 150$ - lot of reviews still had it at around100.
Thanks for the info on Luthun. They no longer show their price on their website so I was curious what they raised it to. Add tax and tip to that. Dirt Candy is no tipping. And you won’t feel rushed.
My dietary restriction is similar to your husband’s. I’ve been to Dirt Candy several times with omnivores and pescatarians. No one has ever missed the meat. Their dessert isn’t always what I want but it’s pretty easy to go out for a 2nd dessert.
Until the fusion cuisine becomes so widely accepted it’s no longer viewed as fusion but simply cuisine. See Italian American cuisine. Dishes that don’t exist in Italy and didn’t exist in America until the late 19th and early 20th century.
Italian-Japanese
Aldo Sohm Wine Bar isn’t somewhere you might think about for dinner, but I had a lovely meal there before the theater recently. They’ve expanded their food menu since the early days, and it’s well-executed.
If you are fine with an early dinner, Milos has a pre theatre menu that would work in your budget, and the food is stellar. Not fusion and not american — greek seafood (and more) executed perfectly.
true - and now i see some interesting italian/japanese at kimika!
Had an amazing meal at Corima - food exceptional 8 courses. They didnt give us a list and we were so busy talking I didnt note all details. Sommelier recommended good white chenin which paired well, but they also offered wine pairing also
Definitely recommend. Pre dinner we had very nice couple of glasses at a nearby wine bar on grand st, with some interesting japanese wines
Amuse bouche uni n tartare in crunchy case
Fish collar - grilled with asian inspired marinade
Mushroom foam with fish roe
Endive in cream sauce
Taco with umeboshi
Turbot
Pork with persimmon
Choc cacao beans, guava paste, rice milk yoghurt with chocolate tamale, egg tart
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It was actually $160! Not cheap, but still better value than the touted upper places. For comparison we also went to Cesar (which coincidentally achived a second Michelin star the same week).
In simple terms we enjoyed both ‘roughly the same amount’. Cesar is International style with premium ingredients (and exceptional service). Luthun is innovative, exploring updated versions of SE Asian (and other Asian) food with solid ingredients (and more casual service). We particularly enjoyed the interaction with the chef at Luthun (also the servers!) as we further enquired about the ingredients in some of the dishes.
Highlight dishes were:
Trout w vanilla honey and passionfruit (yellow) w puffed tapioca
Chicken Wing Terrine w black truffles, in a beef tallow tartlet, sprinkled with ‘teriyaki dust’.
French Onion Tartlet; Beef tartare, oyster emulsion, capers, dried onion soup, horseradish.
And we also had an excellent 2005 Portuguese Rose (from the Baga grape - one of my favourites).
