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| | | | | | The Greek tragedy that is Country continues. Geoffrey Zakarian ran his top-tier three-star restaurant into the ground. The gorgeous upstairs dining room is now closed indefinitely, supposedly to re-open as Country Steak sometime next year. Don’t all yawn at once. The downstairs café is now in... Read More | | | | | | Country is one of our favorite special-occasion restaurants. It may not be the best of those restaurants, but we adore the luxurious, spacious, old-school dining room, the first-class service, and food that usually exceeds our expectations. The new chef: Willis Loughhead [Country/Grub Street]We paid... Read More | | | | | | It was only a couple of weeks after New Year’s Eve, and we were faced with a new dining dilemma: where to book for Valentine’s Day? It’s one of those days when restaurants tend to serve sub-par menus at exorbitant prices. I have generally not had good luck on such occasions, although last New Year’s... Read More | | | | | | It’s a little late to be blogging about Valentine’s Day. I hadn’t planned to say anything about our excellent meal at Country, as we went there last year too, and the format was fairly similar.This time, there were two four-course menus captioned pour lui and pour elle, though we were allowed to mi... Read More | | | | | | Breather New York City Entry #101 Country The servers at Country, Chef Geoffrey Zakarian's new hotel restaurant, think of themselves as representatives of a glorious, dramatic, luxe restaurant. And they are right. Someone should inform the kitchen. All too often, such as A Voce, the creativity ... Read More | | | | | | Downstairs: Haute Barnyard. Upstairs: steak.Photo: Shanna RavindraCountry chef Geoffrey Zakarian, who gave the restaurant an Haute Barnyard makeover earlier this year, will rebrand the upper floor as Country Steak. “I've been trying to do a steakhouse concept for a while,” says Zakarian. “I was look... Read More | | | | | | Country To celebrate my dad's birthday, we went to Country at his suggestion, which is great because it was a restaurant on my to try list. We sat below the rotundra/stained glass skylight which, sad to say, looks more impressive in photos than in real life. The grapes seemed to border on tacky. B... Read More | | | | | | I wanted to love Country. The dining room is breathtakingly beautiful with ostentatious chandeliers, tastefully cased in glass. The open kitchen adds another theatrical element to the experience. The well-heeled waiters skate through the room, contributing additional levels of charm. Country had all... Read More | | | | | | Madison Sq. Park: Country, the beleaguered Madison Sq. Park restaurant with a "poor inspection history" with the DOH, has failed yet another inspection, this time for some purported front of the house issues. On Friday the place was shuttered mainly for lacking city approval for its cryova... Read More | | | | | | [Kalina, 10/05] Before we get deep into the frogs' legs beignets of things—and today we will go deep—a special sidebar congratulations to PR puppetmaster Jennifer Baum for getting not two, not three, but four simultaneous reviews of Country onto the culturescape. 1) Bruni goes a three-star nuts... Read More | | | |
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