Dining Review: Ono

Ono, in the Hotel Gansevoort, has many things going for it: location, garden, interior design, eccentric service staff, talented sushi chefs, tables for groups of eight or more, something to remember New York by. It is what the current trend-watchers call “big box sexy”, “glitterati appealing”, “new urban”, and so on.

It is a big space, it is modern, and it does throb with the current vibe so popular in the Meatpacking district. There are also hundreds of things on the menu, as though a typical diner menu gone upscale madcap in a flurry of Asian ideas. To be sure, the sushi is good, and for anyone visiting the city, this is as good a spot as anyway to try something you can’t get back home. There is better sushi around town, but perhaps not with the kind of theater and color that one finds at Ono.

Go with a group of friends, splurge on the Surf-n-Turf, have a designer mixed drink, laugh as loud as you want. Then head outside to view the madness that is the nightlife in this part of town.

Tags:   Gansevoort, glitterati, Ono, sushi, trend setter, urban sexy

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Posted on 7/19/2007 ( Permanent Link )
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