Brasserie 44
Brasserie 44, the clubby new restaurant inside Midtown's revamped Royalton, opens for dinner on Wednesday, offering an updated American brasserie menu from chef Scott Ekstrom, formerly of Oceana and Daniel. Rustic dishes like a slow-poached farmhouse egg and a pan-roasted veal chop will be served in an intimate dining room with teak wood throughout, supple leather banquettes and majestic bridge-like arches spun from rope. Lunch launches the second week of November.
44 W. 44th St.; 212-869-4400