“Certainly also don’t want to pay like $8 for a bowl of it, but tbh my family and I were pretty pleased by the food there aside from the price.”
4.4/10
AI-generated summary
Go for the room, not the food. It's a clubstaurant, loud and expensive, and people repeat that the food is average for what you pay. Skip the , that reputation went years ago. If you do go, the , the and the are what people actually name.
“Certainly also don’t want to pay like $8 for a bowl of it, but tbh my family and I were pretty pleased by the food there aside from the price.”
“Pretty much meatpacking clubstaurants for the global jet set ie red lobsters for rich people”
“I’m generally not a fan of pan-Asian restaurants but I genuinely could make better rice at home in a rice cooker. It’s Asian food. How the fuck do you make the rice that bland????”
“I don’t really remember anything remarkable other than the bill and pretty sure I was still hungry even though we had ordered several things per person.”
“Their Chilean sea bass appetizer is delicious”
“Taos the place you bring your date if you want to pretend to be fancy but you’re craving kung pow chicken.”
“That’s definitely a situation where the atmosphere is better than the food”
“The sushi itself being better than Tao would be great.”
“restaurants like Serafina, Tao, and Zuma wanna charge you for a room with your overpriced frozen lobster tail.”
“It is now average, but very expensive.”
“You can also explore table service restaurants that offer omakase like Tao which have a clubby vibe, or Momoya in Soho. The vibes are definitely different but good alternatives.”
“The restaurant is horrible. Basically the worst takeout Chinese food ever for like $50 a dish”