Review of Jean Georges in New York City
by Andy Hayler
Food Rating: 6/10
Last visited: October 2005
In the ground floor of the Trump International Hotel by Columbus Circle, this very fashionable restaurant features an airy dining room with lovely flowers. The food is fairly inventive American, and is frequented by the seriously rich. A tuna tart had good pastry and reasonable quality tuna, complemented by some excellent diced vegetables with a citrus sauce. Free range chicken was well timed, and had a fairly well-made risotto with rather dull shiitake mushrooms.
Passion fruit “sunflower” was a clever idea, a meringue in the shape of a sunflower, on top was with was spooned some fresh passion fruit. Bread was classy, and service was friendly and efficient. Very competent, though perhaps hard to see where the “better than sex” comment in the Zagat Guide comes from, unless the person writing it has had some very sad personal experiences.I can't work out Michelin's 3 star rating here. In France it would be 2 stars at most based on this visit.
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