163 First Ave.
Btwn 10th & 11th
New York, NY 10003
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The restaurant lives up to the hype. David Chang may have made his name in Asian fusion, but Ko's soul is clearly in French haute cuisine. What you'll see are a lot of very creative and successful dishes using classic ingredients: caviar with smoked egg and potato chips, shaved foie gras on lychee, seared duck with vinegared cherries. The quality and consistency of the experience easily puts Ko on par with the best restaurants in the city.
But what really separates Ko is the intimate bar setting and casual ambiance. There are other fine dining restaurants, like Babbo, where the music is more likely to be Hendrix than Gershwin and diners are wearing jeans more often than suits. But with the small L-shaped bar, Chang has created a setting similar to a sushi bar, where diners are able to observe the food preparation at arm's length. Watching the extraordinarily delicate and exacting process of preparing a 10+ course meal for 11 people, almost simultaneously, is part of what makes a meal at Ko so exciting.
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