Smack on Lenox Avenue just north of 125th Street, and with glamorous neighbors like Marshalls, Staples and CVS, the place almost instantly became a destination not just for those seeking soul food cooked with a Swedish accent, but for people with an appetite for a dining experience reflective of the New York Grace Paley once lauded for its "chromatic dispersion".
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There is a terrace for dining.
The success of regional, ingredient-led restaurants like Wahaca, Terroirs and Polpo (which is to open a second site this year), and the intimacy brought by the arrival of supper clubs have undoubtedly influenced this, and now it would seem that top chefs are starting to cotton on to the appetite for more relaxed dining environments.
Investors have lost their appetite for the casual-dining sector.
No, this restaurant is a bold wager that a patch of the Upper West Side with an unreliable appetite for adventurous — even somewhat fussy — dining will embrace it, at least if it's executed with skill and panache.
At a small sushi bar near the back of the dining room, two chefs frantically try to satisfy the neighborhood appetite for raw fish.
"Visitors are welcome to dine, read, play, vote, debate, discuss and even fall asleep," says Pestana, but it is hard to see quite where the appetite for audience participation will come from when the subject at stake remains so vague.
