The menu features dishes with Asian accents like sesame seared sashimi-grade tuna with wasabi vinaigrette; shrimp dumpling served with an Asian dipping sauce; and baked bass with Asian vegetables.
Local restaurants and vendors feature dishes with saffron, like risotto alla Milanese, along with new offerings.
The menu featured dishes like pigeon with "playful artichoke corn sauce," foie gras accompanied by a "Black Russian cocktail," and chicken cooked in a milk and tobacco sauce.
While you're letting loose over margaritas, you can get serious with a menu featuring dishes like guacamole with pistachios and masa crisps; sliced mango, lime and chile powder peeky toe crab salad; and shortrib pastrami with pickled cabbage and mustard seed salsa.
The grand opening featured dishes and signature cocktails incorporating 3D elements created in collaboration with local chefs and mixologists.
A pianist, he's also obsessed with food, and his multicourse New York dinner parties are epic, featuring dishes like pasta with Santa Barbara sea urchin, crostini with foie gras, and slow-roasted, bone-in rib-eye.
There are two small dining rooms where a six-course $65 tasting menu (up from $45 at Frej) will be served Sunday to Thursday, featuring dishes like salsify with lichen and autumn leaves, and broccoli with mussels and seaweed.
You can order ?a carte, but it's far better to opt for the three-, five- or seven-course menu, featuring dishes like rabbit with carrots and dandelion, and, for dessert, fennel with white chocolate and licorice (485, 685 and 785 Swedish kronor, or $78 , $110 and $126 at 6.22 Swedish kronor to the dollar).
The inn's exquisite dinners (about 60 euros for two without wine) feature dishes like tagliatelle with porcini mushrooms, lamb al forno (oven-crisped lamb chops) and rabbit with fennel.
Other Williamsburg stores and restaurants that are poised to establish branches in Manhattan or have already done so include Otte, which sells its $56 T-shirts in the West Village, and Miss Williamsburg, which is opening an East 10th Street version of its original 1940's silver-plated diner, featuring dishes like maltagliati with shrimp and fava beans.
The new Les Avises hotel and restaurant just outside of Epernay in Champagne country is another spectacular retreat, with gorgeous contemporary décor and an excellent restaurant where the chef Stéphane Rossillon features dishes like tomato gazpacho with eggplant; pork braised with lemon grass, carrots and baby potatoes; and baba au rhum with lemon cream.
