Sit to the right, and ask for a banquette if you can manage one, then don’t shy from ordering a hamburger after the octopus. Read more.
Try the lemongrass caramel ribs here, which Adam Platt calls “the finest ribs (sticky, charred, infused with lemongrass and caramel) ever to be served in the vicinity of 56th Street and Fifth Avenue." Read more.
This Plaza Hotel bar is a bit of classic New York (Cary Grant went there in “North by Northwest”) and features fetching murals of Central Park in winter by Everett Shinn. Read more.