The team behind Hell's Kitchen fast-casual Filipino spot Tradisyon opened a new restaurant with a Filipino Spanish bent this week. Tradicionale opened in Chelsea at 156 Ninth Avenue, between West 19th and 20th streets, on Tuesday, September 16. The menu features Filipino Spanish dishes, drawing from the Philippines' history as a colony of Spain, by chef Anton Dayrit. This means baby octopus adobo, longanisa fried rice with crab, prawns in the coconutty alavar sauce, and a take on his mother's lengua, a stew.
The recently renovated Waldorf Astoria has reopened with Lex Yard, where chef Michael Anthony brings his acclaimed approach to American brasserie dining. The name references both the hotel's Lexington Avenue address and the historic underground railway that once connected the building to Grand Central Station. This isn't your typical hotel restaurant. Anthony, the chef behind Gramercy Tavern, has created a two-story experience that shifts personality between floors. Downstairs pulses with bar energy, ideal for raw oysters and creative cocktails in a buzzing environment.
The Consulate is less a restaurant and more a meditation on refinement, wrapped in European sophistication, kissed by American edge, and delivered with the kind of poise that makes even the salt feel special.