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Soooo disappointed!
We were looking forward to an amazing dinner! It was a catastrophe! Fish tasting food. Several dishes that we couldn’t eat. Extremely expensive. And as a final count down….we got food poisoned 🤮
Be the first to ReplyLovely Food
The food was fabulous and we really enjoyed all courses provided via their lunch service for all three . The service was very attentive and they made sure we had everything we could ask for very promptly. The restaurant was very relaxed and you feel at ease, despite the Michelin ratings. We did have a slight disparity over the charge post meal but they were happy to sort this promptly and without disagreement. I would recommend this restaurant as we were impressed and felt well fed and dined.
Be the first to ReplyDramatically overpriced
This place is dramatically overpriced! We paid $275 for a family of three basically to have a plate of meatballs with cold mashed potatoes and a small appetizer each. Yes the service people are very nice and the atmosphere is peaceful. It’s a respite from the holiday craziness outside. But come on. I like to enjoy a glass of wine with a meal out but at $25 for the cheapest glass on the menu I abstained. The appetizers were okay but not great. The meatballs were tasteless. I make better myself! A coffee is $9. I would not go here unless it is Restaurant Week!
Be the first to ReplyPerfection
Honestly one of the best best dinners we have ever had. Service was impeccable - servers were very knowledgeable, passionate, and accommodating. The food is just better and bette with each course. Cannot recommend it highly enough. If you’re thinking about going - do it, you will not be disappointed. Decor is gorgeous as well
Be the first to ReplyAs expected, flawless
There were two spectacular plates, the roasted corn with caviar , paired with sake champagne and the bird nest. Everything else was also Outstanding. The food was delicious and the service incredible.
Be the first to ReplyInnovative food, drinks and experience.
The food is excellent with an artistic presentation. It was one creative dish after another and the drinks were enjoyable as well. The service was top flight and the restaurant had an elegant but simplistic decor. We really enjoyed the food and experience. You will not leave hungry.
Be the first to ReplySuperb food
We took the tasting menu. The food was delicious especially the caviar, king crab and duck meals. Service was excellent. The presentation of the dishes was impeccable.
Be the first to ReplySublime experience
I took a special friend here for his birthday and the entire experience was wonderful. This is a very relaxed, spacious, quiet restaurant with great staff. Everyone we interacted with was professional but also fun and interesting. We barely noticed anyone else there. The food is highly creative and delicious. One of the top 5 restaurants in NYC as far as food but the atmosphere and experience make it my second favorite after Aska.
Be the first to ReplyExcellent
High class food and service. Highly recommended for a special meal. Acknowledged it was our anniversary with a glass of champagne.
Be the first to ReplyDelicious seafood-based courses!
We’ve been to many prix fixe oriented restaurants and Aquavit ranks very highly for its seafood-based courses, and the calm and tasteful dining room and decor, and the service. The wine list is excellent. We have two nitpicks though for a restaurant at this level. First, our primary server temporarily took on the role of sommelier by giving wine pairing advice but didn’t have the expertise to pull this off. The sommelier did come over several minutes later and he was excellent but he was a busy man and couldn’t spend as much time with people as I would expect. Also, at the end of the meal, the server missed a big opportunity by not offering after dinner drinks. This is becoming strangely common even in 2-star restaurants.
Be the first to ReplyDisappointing
Let me start with the caveat that we were in the bar, not the main restaurant. We ordered the first Christmas plate. The accompanying glass of glogg was just the ordinary stuff one drinks anywhere in Sweden at this time of year. The herring were fine, but nothing special; ditto for the smoked salmon, gravlax, ham, and cubes of cheese - same stuff you can pick up from a nice supermarket. The shrimp eggs, which at least didn't appear to come out of a package, were cold and had no taste. The boiled potatoes were good. No point whatsoever in paying this amount of money for these perfectly ordinary things, a good portion of which went uneaten. We next had the skate schnitzel, a paper thin piece of fish with a lot of breading soaked in a butter sauce. Fine, but nothing like two star food. The service was likewise fine, as was the atmosphere. The question really was, why come here? Based on the excellent reviews of the main restaurant, perhaps try that instead of the bar.
Be the first to ReplyMost incredible food I had this year
This was incredible.
The details are not making it Justice
This was a surprise on every expected level
First the food was well deserving of 3 Michelin stars
The progression was perfect
The first course was amuse of shrimp crispy and citrus surprise of texture and taste paired with a perfectly blended pate and sweet sour bite
Next came a very refreshing bite of fluke
Followed by an amazing caviar and langustine perfect bite and a highlight- well deserved to be a signature dish followed by the most incredible crab dish 2 ways paired with incredible Bread followed again by
Sweetbread- a twist that was fine and the weakest dish of the night but still crunch texture and solid dish
The halibut follows and is well balanced and very well received
The duck was excellent and truly deserving of a gold star Add on truffle was amazing but noted to be both expensive and not necessarily requires as the dish stood very well on its own
A intermezzo not too overwhelming and well placed - was fine
Last came the desert a significant up scale and signature worthy desert
Last came swaleets a nice touch
The food was a 9 with all well received
The mediocre temporizing component were
Location is nice but not as comfortable as one can get - fine but not great
The cost was as expected but expensive
Service was good not great 8
The only poorly received was the paired drinks menu
The pours were small some much lower than expected
I expected 2 oz for each they were much smaller but well paired and good wines
The pisco drink was very good and the beers selection and execution was good
Overall service 7-8
The value to the paired wine was 5 pulling it down
Overall the most surprising meal and experience I had this year and well deserving of the 2 stars
I see a bright future for this restaurant and chef with impecable ability to bring joy
Blessed to be here
Good, but not great!
I must say, with two Michelin stars and some fantastic reviews, we decided to attend this restaurant, which specializes in Nordic cuisine.
On a busy Saturday evening, we were very happy to try the set tasting menu, which had the following courses:
(1) Fluke and cucumber. This really worked very well. Fresh and light chopped fluke with the crunch of the cucumber. A very good way to start this menu;
(2) Scallop and leek. What's not to like about scallops. Sweet and fresh. However, you would hope that leek would go well with the seafood. It seemed to overpower it both in taste and texture. The scallop had been chopped up and covered with the chopped leek;
(3) Halibut and trout roe. A great combination. However, our table agreed that the halibut was slightly undercooked;
(4) Beef with black garlic. Really delicious combination. However, for the price of $155 per person, two rather minute slithers of beef was a little mean; and
(5) Dark chocolate with currant. This was something else. Probably our table's favorite, even though not all are 'sweet-tooths'. The currant sorbet (tasted a lot like plum sorbet) was tart and really was delightful with the rich chocolate. Most excellent!
I would struggle to complain about service. We literally could not move without a server being attentive. Perhaps overly attentive.
The atmosphere was fine, but in my humble opinion, the staff lacked esprit de corps. They were efficient, but lacked personality. What I am trying to say is the service was there but felt like a facade or veneer hiding something.
Good, but not excellent.
Good Meal
I enjoyed my meal. This was my second time at Aquavit, and I would love to return a third time.
My only regret is ordering the wine pairing. The pours were very small, and the pricing was very expensive compared to wine-by-the-glass, yet the quality of the wine-by-the-glass was about the same. Our table managed by a team of servers, as opposed to a dedicated server. This resulted in service being a little more rushed than I would have preferred. Another advantage of ordering wine-by-the-glass is that you can manage the speed of the service better.
I don't mind, but this is not really a Nordic restaurant. Yes, the furniture is Nordic, and one of dishes was accompanied with classic Swedish bread, but none of the staff was Nordic, and the dishes included ingredients such as Asian spices, daikon, and lemon.
Sublime tasting menu with the wine pairing
One of the best fine dining/degustation experiences I have had. Having tried the wine pairing with the 7 course tasting course, it is almost difficult to consider the food separately, other than to say that it mostly elevates the dining experience from what I would have considered a fairly standard (excellent) fine dining degustation experience (this is not the wine talking, I promise). For background, we have tried wine and non-alcoholic pairings in the past in other places, but tend to do without them more often than not and have had mixed experiences. Non-alcoholic pairings are not currently available at Aquavit, but may be in the future.
The food is implicitly themed in a Northern European style with a seafood and dairy flavours being most common, and each dish progressively builds upon it. However, it is not heavy and the balance of taste, texture and quality of the food is excellent. In one case, a small part of one of the main dishes was a bit dry/overcooked, but this was a sole exception. In the middle section just before the mains, the dishes became less well-defined and I would have found it harder to finish without the wine pairing. The dessert (following a palate cleanser), was the best presented dish of the tasting course and surprisingly light and easy to finish. The presentation of the other dishes was decent, offered nothing that has not been seen before, but kept well to the theme of the menu. The portions were appropriately sized and did not leave feeling hungry. As alluded to, the wine pairing added panache to almost all the dishes, with exception of one of the main dishes, which the sommelier did admit up front was a bit of a gamble.
Atmosphere is calm with muted decor. The food (specifically taste and texture) is the star of the show. Service was smooth, friendly, but not textbook during the busier periods. The sommelier was the same, but very informative and we left far more educated than inebriated. In terms of value, it is an ecstatic food/drink experience, but only the reader will be able to determine if such an experience is worth the astronomical cost of fine dining!
My New Special Occaison Resturant
We had intended to go two years prior as a Christmas gift for my sister from Wales before seeing Frozen. (They had partnered around the danish theme with a pre-theatre menu, and my sister and neice love the Disney Musicals.) As my sister finally made it to NYC this summer, I owed her the dinner. I had been to Aqauvit once before about 15 years ago for a business dinner sponsored by a pharmacy company. I recalled it being superb.
Post-renovation, it still features refined nordic wood finishes and the relaxed sophistication of a restaurant that knows it is among the very best. We sat in the bar area as my quests preferred the ala carte menu, but the three course prix fixe for $125 probably would have been a descent deal. The three aquavit gin based liquors kept me entertained through the three courses. The rye and sourdough bread basket for $8 was plentiful for the group of 3, as were the Swedish meatballs which came with some pickles and pomentrants. The bass was dressed with a perfect lemonly hollandaise and the wagu beef was perfectly cooked and graced with greens.
But the real standouts were:
1) The Princess Cake: so pretty and fluffy, it would make the perfect wedding cake, and I dont usually like white cake.
2) The best dish of the evening: the Bird’s Nest, three crusted goat cheese ice cream eggs in a nest of edible twigs with edible flours. It was beautiful and had great texture.
When dining with vistors from out of town again, it would be my new go to.
Fantastic
Fantastic. Came here for a special occasion and it was truly an amazing experience. Staff is friendly and helpful (not uptight which I personally appreciate in fine dining restaurants). Definitely will come back.
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