Gabriel Kreuther

Stunningly sensuous spectacular dining experience. It says French on Unilocal,but this is Alsatian food very German influenced. The main dining room is a sophisticated room with round crème. Banquettes and a few artfully placed pillows. This meal was stellar.
Ate:
Two course savory $ 52 plus desert $ 16 plus wine $ 15 Lunch
Dorade with green tomato marmalade w/​coriander fennel foam
Young organic poussin w/​licorice jus
Decadent blackberry over chocolate mouse & milk chocolate w/​caramel glaze
The foods starts coming and doesn’t stop. Amuse bouche looks like a beach scene with umbrellas & coconut mango cold soup. The kugelof w/​scallions & fromage blanc is a mix of cake & bread kind of like a brioche. That’s the first bread course. The dorade with its foamy top is lick the bowl amazing. The poussin was very good & loved the licorice jus. Second bread was whole wheat ficelle with cultured butter. Dessert was a work of art & the special milk chocolate mousse with caramel was bananas. Not finished, a coconut shell with house made stunning chocolates arrived. #PUREPLEASURE #PERIOD!

I had the pleasure of visiting Gabriel Kreuther Bar twice while in NYC for work. I found the staff both gracious and attentive, and the fare excellent. I highly recommend the boringly named but fantastically complex «West Wind» cocktail, which I would rename «A Song of Smoke and Ginger». The Gran Marnier Baba is also not to be missed; it may sound good on the menu but the presentation will exceed expectations.
Many thanks to Sam, Cesar, and the rest of the staff that made both of my visits exceptional. I don’t know when I may return to NYC, but I do know that I will make a point to return to Gabriel Kreuther Bar!

I was here for my semi milestone birthday on a Saturday evening. A beautiful and airy dining space with a lot of richy looking people… I saw many elegant dresses and fine jewelries… In any event, we had the tasting menu which lasted for almost 3 hours — I believe it was about 10 savory courses plus desert. It hits all the spots — caviar, uni, foie gras, truffles, wagyu, etc. Everything was creative but not overly complex. Three hour meal can be a bit exhausting and the service could be faster but I was not uncomfortably full at the end the dinner and was able to enjoy till the last course (without wine paring). I believe they have pre theater and I’d try that next time.

4.5 Really, but fell a little short of expectations.
To start, really great staff, our plane was late getting into JFK and Jet Blue succeeded in losing our one bag with the dinner wine in it (Frank Family Rutherford Reserve ’07 and Château Montelena ’96 — AHHHH), leading to a desperate call to GK from the cab. They kindly and calmly changed our reservation from 6:30 to 7:45, giving us time to recover and actually get there.
The location is billed as «Overlooking Midtown’s verdant Bryant Park», but there is actually no view at all from the main dinning room, however, the space is elegant yet relaxed. The service was exceptional, especially the gracious Sommelier who helped me climb back from the loss of my favorite wines with an excellent Cremant Rose and Hestan second growth (we did eventually get our bag and wine back). They keep the bottles off the table, and they were a touch behind in keeping up with the glasses, but possibly all for the better.
The four of us combined to try most of the offerings. The Wild American Sturgeon Caviar was outstanding with a very unique presentation of Caviar layered onto a creamy mixture reminiscent of crème fraîche and al-​détente potatoes, one of the most successful tastes of the night. The Chilled Provence White Asparagus Soup was fabulous, and the Seared Sullivan County Foie Gras was perfect. The most successful Third offering was the Grilled Maine Lobster with shellfish-​coconut nage, really well-​developed and inspiring. All of the bread was amazing. The desserts we tried succeeded more on presentation than taste. There were some misses in our opinion as well. The Compressed Hamachi was unappealing, introducing an odd bitterness to an otherwise amazing fish. The Langoustine Tartare was bland, and the Foie Gras Terrine & Black Truffle Praline, Soft Shell Crab Tempura, and Crispy Sweetbreads Roasted in Duck Fat were OK not great. The Wagyu Beef Strip Loin was a little short on cabrales blue and seasoning, a bit disappointing.
We will definitely be back. You can not go wrong with a meal of Wild American Sturgeon Caviar, White Asparagus Soup, Seared Sullivan County Foie Gras, and Grilled Maine Lobster ! That pairing is truly 5 Stars.

Hard to not give Gabriel a 5* rating. Truth be told, I would give it a 4.8 if I could, but obviously we can’t do that. My wife and I went here for lunch to celebrate our both anniversary. I had made my reservation on OpenTable through the Gabriel website. So I was a little taken aback when we got there that they said they did not have my reservation in the system. I searched my emails and looked at their reservations on their system to no avail. No reservation under my name. I was a little bummed out as I had been looking forward to this meal. No worries the host told us as we could sit in the bar/​lounge area. While this was not ideal and I was still steaming my wife was fine with it.
Our server was fantastic (sorry I do not remember his name) and the waitstaff in all was also great. We ordered the bar lunch special menu (an appetizer, entrée and dessert) along with an extra dish. My wife had the classic tarte flambée (personal I loved it while my wife thought it was good, not great), the grouper (spectacular) and the cheesecake (excellent). I had the pea soup (spectacular), tripe (very good to excellent. Would have said excellent as there were too many potatoes.) and the beignets (very good, not excellent.). The staff also sent out a special tart, to celebrate our anniversary, which was excellent.
Besides the fact that my reservation that was not in the system (I later found out, after returning to home, that when I submitted, after entering my credit card details, the credit card system was «temporarily off line» (I never waited to receive confirmation and the screen was still on my computer when I opened it later that evening!) and some very, very minor food gripes, Gabriel Kreuther’s is a place I would love to return to some day in the future, especially for dinner.

5 star service, 4 stars for food, 5 stars for ambience. My first visit was for a special Valentine’s Day menu, and it was a really lovely experience. Creativity seemed to outweigh taste for some of the dishes, but overall there was a very nice progression of courses. The bread, amuse bouche, and chocolates were generous. I also appreciate half pours on a wine list, which allows you to make your own wine pairings throughout the meal.
I recently visited for a birthday dinner and sat in the bar area which is a la carte. They were very accommodating and patient (not always the case with large parties!). Portions are on the small side, so I recommend an app + entrée + dessert per person.
The scallops are a refreshing app and they come dressed with a bit of sea urchin. Foie gras and the sturgeon tart were also excellent choices for a bit of old-​school glamour. The tarte flambé is a flatbread (we got the mushroom) and is perfect for sharing. The Baked Dorade had the most delicious foam, a lighter entrée option with great flavor composition. The duck confit is heartier and cooked perfectly, not too fatty with crisp skin. The only disappointment was the saffron gnocchetti, which lacked depth of flavor and was surprisingly unsatisfying for a pasta. It may have been my mistake to expect gnocchi when it was actually more like shell pasta — not airy and pillowy, yet also not al dente and chewy.
The ambience couldn’t be better — elegant and comfortable with floor to ceiling windows facing Bryant park. I would recommend the tasting menu over the bar. The price difference really accounts for the added touches throughout the meal, and the prefixe price is very reasonable for other restaurants of this caliber. They really know how to take care of their diners — highly recommend as a restaurant for special occasions.

Excellent excellent place!!! Loved this place so much — the food just melts in your mouth!!! I got the duck confit entrée and beignet as dessert. Best duck confit dish I’ve ever had so far!!! Their fork and knife were interesting too! One note is that if you want to order individual item alone (if you just want to order one entrée for example), ask to be seated at the bar. If you get seated on the restaurant side, it is a four-​course meal only.

This place is excellent, a 5-​star restaurant indeed! Came here for an early dinner before seeing a Broadway play. The restaurant is in a great location as it is close to the theater. This is one of the fanciest restaurants I have been to. The service is impeccable, I truly felt I was on an episode of Top Chef the way the food was presented, executed and served. The Food was absolutely delicious! The flavors opened up my palate to flavors unknown. Although this restaurant is quite pricey, you definitely get what you pay for here. I would love to come back and try new dishes as I’m pretty sure the entire menu is spectacular.

Dinner was fantastic. The tasting was relatively quick at around 2 hours. My favorites were the foie gras and sea scallops. Service was excellent.

This place is a 1-​michelin star restaurant that really should have 2 stars. I assume they’ll get there shortly because it is very inventive with excellent attention to every detail. We came here for a pre-​theater dinner and absolutely loved the tasting menu and wine pairings.
They have custom plates, custom silverware, custom wineglasses that are designed to convey the food and drinks in the way most intended by the chef. Lots of little bites come in between courses to keep things interesting, and topping it off with impeccable service leaves you feeling like a million bucks.
I would definitely come here again.

Coming here for the first time while reading mixed reviews made my experience there all the more memorable. Due to the mixed reviews, I didn’t set the bar too high. I think that made it all the more special.
We had a reservation at 6pm but got there earlier. Got seated at around 5:45 and the waiter was extremely courteous. His name was Cody!
Without even getting a good look at the menu, my boyfriend told me I didn’t have to choose. He already chose carte blanche for us.
We started with a moist, delicious bread with a compound butter. My boyfriend and I love good baked breads so definitely a plus there. Then came a cute course that was composed of 4 miniature starters. The most memorable was the yuzu pâté de fruit. Next came the caviar which was just delicious. Reminiscent of caviar on mashed potatoes — just more elegant!
Next came a compressed hamachi with fois gras terrine. I’ll be really honest with you — I’ve never had foie gras. Okay, I’ve never had truffle either but the foie gras I’ve heard of from food network. Never would I have thought I’d eat it much less like it! The truffle gave it an earthy taste as well.
My boyfriend’s favorite came next which was the ocean trout. It was so creamy and reminded us of an extravagant salad. Would definitely want to savour again! More bread came and it was so reminiscent of our dates at L’ ecole and his days of courtship with bread. It definitely kept me smiling the whole night.
Onwards to our next meal was — sweetbreads! Gosh, never in a million years would I believe I’d try that. Just like the foie gras though, I sucked it up and decided I will try it. It was actually not bad! Pretty good and very rich. I actually didn’t think I’d like it but it definitely surprised me for liking it. Next was the king crab — and being a person who doesn’t eat crab much, I loved it as well. It was also lighter than the previous dish which was pleasant. After that, we had another dish which was a tad spicy — loved it. The mangalitsa morcilla. Too bad my mother called and I missed out on what made it.
More bread — the rosemary buckwheat rolls — very fragrant. Dwindling down, our next star was foie gras — and the chef was not shy about it at all. When I smelled it, the aroma reminded me of Vietnamese phở & after speaking with my boyfriend, it was also very reminiscent of Chinese restaurant’s roast duck. Braving myself for a big chunk of it, I dug in and loved it. Definitely more fatty and softer than the texture of roast duck — but more delicious. Yum!
Our final entrée was the duck confit which was a perfect way to end the meaty portions of our meal.
The next upcoming was the dessert. Something tart to clear our palate was the rice pudding with pineberries, strawberry gelee & elderflower champagne granite (my boyfriend just said darn! We should’ve gotten champagne). Then came a congratulations on a plate with a candle that starred the fleur de temps & raspberry white chocolate. Lastly was a demonstrative course of crème brulée by our lovely waiter Cody.
Our course of multiple tastings was definitely pleasing and I would definitely go back. But it wasn’t only the tasting menu that’s got me wanting to come back.
The wait staff was extremely courteous and attentive. Cody even realized my boyfriend got me a gift. Coming to our table, he asked about it and found out we would be new graduates. Taking that into consideration, it surprised us in our desserts. Even put a candle for us which made our meal tonight all the more special. But honestly what made their staff more attentive was when my boyfriend sneezed. He walked over and told him «bless you». With that kind of attention, how could our night not be special? The other wait staff constantly refilled our water and cleaned after our breadcrumbs. I’m very glad I came here in lieu of my graduation formal. Definitely more worth it to be with someone special and a welcoming atmosphere by everyone there.

The food presentation is impressive and comes close to being considered art on occasion. The service is very professional and the atmosphere is crisp as you should expect here. The food was good overall and in some cases excellent. An enjoyable investment!

Locate across the street from Midtown’s Bryant Park, Gabriel Kreuther (named after its executive chef) is a highly-​acclaimed, elegant restaurant in the ground floor of the Grace Building. Gabriel Kreuther — a former executive chef of Danny Meyer’s The Modern — earned a Michelin star this past year.
I came to Gabriel with a large group for pre-​dinner drinks and appetizers. We ordered the Artisanal Cheeses, King Crab Croquettes, Spiced Shishito Peppers, Sturgeon Tart, and all three pizzas to share.
The cheese platter included 4 different types of cheese (cow and goat) with honey, toasted baguette, and apricot marmalade. $ 23 is a bit pricey for the platter, but I could tell that it was high quality.
The King Crab Croquettes ($ 12) reminded me of very soft crab cake. It had a risotto-​like consistency with crab cake flavors. Great for sharing, but pretty small portion. Spiced Shishito Peppers had great seasoning, but some of the peppers were much spicier than others.
Of the three pizzas, my favorite by far was Hen of the Woods Mushrooms pizza with comte cheese, chive, nutmeg, and onion. I liked the crispy flatbread and the combination of cheese + mushroom. Others included Classic (smoked bacon, onion, crème fraîche, fromage blanc) and House Cured Gravlax (salmon roe, onion, sorrel, horseradish). Really wasn’t a fan of the Salmon pizza… it just tasted like lox and bagel to me and $ 23 is way too expensive.
Finally we added the Sturgeon Tart, which was topped with caviar. It was presented beautifully with smoke. This dish was a bit difficult to share and quite heavy.

Sincerely, what an incredible meal. The food
was beyond. (We ate in the bar… Do not miss the sturgeon tart, or the flounder tartar. And of course the tartes flambé). The service was incredible. The room was exquisite. I had to stop myself from stealing the silverware.
I loved everything. It was just beyond and I will remember it forever. Thank you so much. Your staff took extra care of us and we really appreciated it.

I was very excited to try this place based on the reviews, 2016 Michelin star nod and a personal recommendation from someone while we were having dinner at Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare.
I don’t get why the reviews are so stellar.
Food: We had the Langoustine Tartare, Sunchoke Soup, 7X Colorado Wagyu Beef Strip Loin, and the duck, Tropical and Coconut Exotic Fruits and the chocolate dessert. Everything was just okay, nothing stood out, nothing was memorable. There are so many amazing restaurants in NYC. I don’t think this one measures up to the greats, but I’m glad that I tried it once.
Atmosphere: The dining room is very elegant.

Don’t like the location, but everything else was beautiful. From the moment you walk through the entrance, you’ll see their seamless and perfect service while it’s not stuffy.
I sat at the bar while waiting for my dinner companions. The bar area is really nice and modern but still with the discreet but thorough service. Dinner was wonderful and really beautifully presented. There were some small things that we weren’t sure if they were edible or we didn’t know exactly what they were. But when asked, the staff always had a detailed answer, which told me they were well trained and well informed. The restaurant is modern with some classic touch — every section you look, you’d find something different.
My expectations were totally met, and I walked out feeling that $ was worth for the wonderful dining experience.

Perhaps it was my selections, or it just might be the oeuvre of the restaurant but this place bends a little more heavily toward the German side of Alsace than the French. «Sour» (tart) flavors are ever present and pickled accents show up on most plates. The German wine pairings seem to work just a touch better. In reality, it probably makes no difference. This was a stunning assortment of food. I really enjoyed everything.
The Veloute appetizer was rich and creamy, the sauerkraut tart capped with a light mousseline and hiding smoked sturgeon was like nothing I’ve tasted before and the duck was served as a beautiful pink shard with an earthy sausage next to pungent, complimentary red cabbage. Dessert featured a basket of tropical fruits mixed to properly rest a well used palette.
Before leaving one of the staff members asked about the highlight of the evening. I was dumbstruck. Each and every element was so on-​point I stumbled through an incoherent response. Isn’t it great when food makes you a blathering fool?

I read all the reviews on here, and I am just not sure what happened, but our meal was not amazing. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t balls-​to-​the-​wall great. The flavors were fine, nothing made the angels sing. The current menu is different now from what I had (langoustines, scallops, and duck), and the only thing memorable was the chocolates served in a cacao pod, because the chocolates rest on a bed of nibs which are quite fun to eat. I also remember how long the service was (~45 minutes between the second and third courses), and the whole meal was just a belabored and overextended affair.
One of the reviewers on here said it was a sin that GK didn’t have more than one Michelin star — like someone at Michelin needs to go to confession because they didn’t shower the restaurant with stars, but honestly, one is enough. And going here once was enough for me and going here none is probably enough for you, if you’re interested in checking out the ol’ Gabester.

3.5 STARS
We had a nice meal at Gabriel Kreuther. Though the food was generally good and inventive, there wasn’t anything that totally blew me away. The squab and foie gras croustillant and langoustine tartare were my favorite dishes. I thought the restaurant space was nice, but didn’t have a cohesive feel. Also, it seemed as if they were understaffed and our server, while she was very friendly, was often gone for long stretches of time.
I still enjoyed my meal at Gabriel Kreuther, and I feel like I’d give the restaurant another try, but I wasn’t 100% sold on it.

The second I stepped into GK, I know there’s gonna be discrimination between bar room and main dining room; however they did it in a mild way that both areas present amid ambience.
Since I’m in a hurry of an event at night, have to settle myself with the prex fixe menu, with three savory dishes and one dessert. Of course GK also offered a couple of small bites. Surprisingly, I liked their baguette a lot — with the crispy crust and a black filling, interesting!
Coming to GK, raw is something that you cannot skip. Both the scallop and the langoustine tartare were freshly prepared and absorbed the flavor perfectly. Didn’t remember the taste of blue shrimp (second course) clearly, probably because I’m not a big fan of milky soup… for the main course, I would personally suggest going for the duck, but people might have different opinions on that.
Ok now time for dessert! Cannot wait! Opted for the fantasy and textural. I guess if one thing I could remember, that would be how pretty the presentation can be — girls always go for beautiful stuff and I cannot help with that…
Back on track, delicious food, fantastic presentation, awesome atmosphere — not at all surprised GK was raised to one Michelin star within the first year of opening!