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Bed and Board: Classic and New Hotel Restaurants

MAY 5, 2009

A great restaurant is often an extra perk for city hotel patrons, but there's a bygone-era elegance about hotel dining even if you'll be sleeping at home.

Of course, there's L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon at The Four Seasons on East 57th Street for world-class destination dining, hotel or otherwise. But if you want to extend the experience a bit more, you'll find that a handful of the the city's restaurants combine hotel elegance with fine dining. The Oak Room at the Plaza Hotel is another oasis of old New York in Midtown East. Though it offers perhaps less old-world style, The View at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square can make a unique claim: It's the city's only rotating restaurant.

A newer batch of restaurants that call hotels home include Center Cut (steakhouse fare) in the Empire Hotel on West 54th Street, Heartbeat (health-conscious new American cuisine) at the W Hotel in Midtown East, and NIOS (classic American) in the Muse Hotel in Manhattan's theater district. And serving only buzz at present, with opening dates in the coming months are Table 8 in the Cooper Square Hotel and Breslin at the Ace Hotel at 29th and Broadway.