Forget soho’s corner shop always reserved. The city was the hottest restaurant – and the hardest to get into “is miles at Uptown at Staid East 74th Street.
Chez Fifi has been the toughest ticket since it opened on the upper side of East in December. 10 â € and for a good reason. It is the most north of Bloomingdale place since the nine -year closed Swifty closed action, with a perfectly perfect menu and staff with the plush but not unstable surroundings.
Owners, local brothers of Yorker David and Joshula Foulquier, also own Omakase-Heaven Sushi Noz.
But Chez Fifi, named for their late mother, has no Japanese elements. The chef Menu Zack Zeidman certainly calls himself a love letter to Paris and San Sebastian, “the capital of the Basque country culinary of Spain.
Friends better tied than I have run around Chez Fifi for months. I finally marked a dining room table in the civilized hour of 7:30 pm at the beginning of this week.
Chez Fifi, from Stockholm -based architectural studio, is called Clubby, but “Cozyâ is a better word. 44 -seat dining room and 28 -seat cocktail salon make you want to stay all night.
The conversation comes easy with neighbors, like the woman near me, who joyfully rejoiced, “It’s so great! Everyone else was just as friendly, but – I wish they were more dressed for such a beautiful dining room – here was the only one at home.
The menu and humor attract the main chefs of the city night after night. Eric Ripert was last week. On Wednesday, I talked to Alfred portals in a stand. He cried when I asked him if, in addition to his restaurant on the 18th Street, he is still, the culinary director at the Scott Sartiano Hotel, Sartiano.
“Just completely,” he said.
There is nothing cheap about Chez-Fifi-A good glass, but Rosã © short was $ 30-the three-courses is $ 125.
For the most part, Chez Fifi’s high prices are worth it.
A starter called Itangurro ($ 42) – – a basket plate of devilish crabs in a shell – brought again beloved memories of the San Sebastian farm place with its soft sauce, tomatoes, garlic and white wine.
Equally evocative were the weak cheeks in the Rice bombs ($ 36), another snack that is large enough for a main course.
“It looks like risotto but it’s not,” Captain explained to soft rice, with short grains on the mollusk soup.
The Escargot’s half-dusa ($ 25) with parsley garlic and butter sauce were the French classic, as delicious both in the city and lightly stripped of shells.
After so many strokes, the Special House of Half-Chicken ($ 82 per two) with hidden and foie-bound gras came as a slight interruption. The leg and chest were flavoring, but more pampering than your average high -level bird, thanks to being a little naked. The dish was mainly redeemed by abundant jus and baked potatoes baked by the true Fifi recipe.
It was easier to use my hands in the flesh than knives. I felt aware as the captain said with joy: â € œDavid and seduce eat with their own hands all the time, and we encourage customers to do it.â €
The sweets menu includes a classic Baba Au Rhum, but even better was the farmer’s cheese ice cream with fresh huckleberries (both $ 14). The latter’s sweet interaction had us all, but with pleasure.
What the house calls “Martinisâ” are the pride of mycologist Yumi Nemoto List of cocktails. My gray goose jinn came with so much fruit and juice as a handful of crops, but enjoyed better. Summer list.
But the memories of the Basque country and the fifth charming staff will keep me for now – until I can mark another reservation.
Chez Fifi, 140 E. 74TH ST, Chezfiffync.com, Saturday Saturday, 5-9: 30 Afternoon
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