Danny Meyer’s Sky-High FiDi Restaurant Manhatta Opens Next Week

Restaurateur extraordinaire Danny Meyer’s penthouse Financial District restaurant Manhatta is set to throw open its elevator doors next week on Tuesday, July 17.

Get ready for a French-American menu, three courses for $78, served in the sky-high space on the 60th floor of the 28 Liberty St. tower. Longtime Maialino chef Jason Pfeifer heads up the kitchen here, where a meal could include such luxuries as lobster quenelles with trumpet mushrooms and chervil; wagyu bavette with pommes anna and harbison cheese; and a warm date cake with crème fraîche ice cream and whiskey sauce. The menu sent to email subscribers is below.

Though Meyer has previously told Eater that his goal was a restaurant that he “would want to go to frequently” despite its special occasion-worthy view, the price point at the new Union Square Hospitality Group restaurant suggests something a little different, at least for those without hospitality empires. One could feasibly head up for a drink or $10 snack of tempura scallops, fried oysters, or croque madame, though. Or buy out the attached events space Bay Room when that opens.

Meyer is on a summer opening roll; he recently debuted the more approachable outdoor taqueria Tacocina in Domino Park, though it hasn’t been the most well-received of restaurants so far.

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