Best Options for Business Lunches in NYC – II

Okay, round two of impressing your business clients. Here are some more options for you, some more money saving deals, and some interesting places to visit in New York

Inside Park at St. Bart’s

• Address: 325 Park Ave at 50th St
• Phone: 212-593-3333
• Average main course $18

Chef Matthew Weingarten offers the city’s finest Greenmarket cooking, thanks to the many years he worked at the Savoy – the seminal Greenmarket establishment. Inside Park at St. Bart’s is the relatively new restaurant located in the Great Hall at St. Bartholomew’s Church. Here you can sample fare like well-cooked heritage pork chop, oyster pan roast, chunky rabbit ragù over hand-cut pappardelle, and striped bass meunière. Enjoy to your heart’s content, that is, if you aren’t too queasy about guzzling down drinks and hogging food inside a church.

Jean Georges

• Address: Trump International Hotel & Tower, 1 Central Park West at Columbus Circle
• Phone: 212-299-3900
• Three-course prix fixe $26

You don’t go to Jean Georges to celebrate an occasion; at Jean Georges food is the reason to celebrate.  This establishment is a critically acclaimed New York Times 4-star rated, 3-star Michelin rated flagship restaurant. It’s okay if you forget your manners and stare open mouthed at all that food travelling to other tables and also what lands on yours. Frankly, they don’t care. They think of it as a compliment, this undulated appraisal of their food. From the simplest dish, such as sea scallops with caper-raisin emulsion to the sweetbreads en cocotte with ginger and licorice, to the plum sorbet…food here is a work of art.

Megu Midtown

• Address: 845 U.N. Plaza, Trump World Tower, First Ave at 47th St
• Phone: 212-964-7777
• Three-course prix fixe $24, six-course prix fixe, at $70

Megu midtown is located on the ground floor of the Trump World Tower. It’s not half as big as the original restaurant in Tribeca, but, it is still quite extravagant. The cuisine is Japanese and there are a lot of innovative touches to it. They offer the freshest sashimi and sushi, soups and salads, seafood, and a hot favorite, the Waygu Kobe beef. And, to complement the food, you can choose from their extensive range of 600 wines and 60 sakes.

Wolfgang’s Steakhouse

• Address: 4 Park Ave at 33rd St
• Phone: 212-889-3369
• Average lunch $60–$80, lunch specials starting at $25.

If you love all things beef, Wolfgang Steakhouse will be your place of worship. Wolfgang Zweiner has over four years of experience under his belt and he is determined to make his restaurant a name to reckon with. The dining environment is elegant with the striking vault ceiling designed by Guastavino. The meat served at this place is prime and dry-aged for about 28 days in a basement locker before being cut into porterhouse steaks for two, three, or four. Recommended dishes are filet mignon, porterhouse for two, sirloin steak, lamb chops, creamed spinach, cottage fries, and German potatoes.

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