Bar Lumière — Restaurant in New York

First thing I noticed is they a right next to popina, and their prices are high, even in this economy. The cocktails are also priced very high also.

FYI: In thy backyard the purple hue lighting messing up pictures really badly at night.

Cutlery is nice. The utensils are black and well balanced.

Water taste weird.

Portions a decent for the 2 appetizers we tried. The temperature of the dishes was not hot enough- they left it too long before bringing it to the table.

The dish flavoring I think doesn't work well for the crab doughnut. It has jalapeño slices or similar, and the flavoring is some kind of yuzu or citrus flavor. The doughnut itself needs help because it's not bad, but it's not good enough to be over $20. I think maybe a dry seasoning and a brioche doughnut would have been better. The sauce on the crab doesn't do it any favors. Overall thy crab was cooked well enough, but wasn't stellar.

The crispy pork head was overall pretty good and an interesting use of ingredients and flavors. I think it needs a little something, but I don't know what.

Honestly my overall take away from this place is the food doesn't match the menu description, the quality based on thy process and it doesn't hit high enough to warrant the price point.

Service was good and it kitchen looked clean,but again it's only a few days in.

I've watched them deconstruct the old place and build out the restaurant. I've seen an thy friends and family visit, but the items you get abs the prices still leave a bad taste in my mouth. I would love for a new place to open up, but with popina, unstable, gus, house of pizza and calzone, cafe spaghetti, swoony, abs lucali within 5-12m walk this doesn't get my recommendation.

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My wife and I came in during their first week of opening. We had the crab donut, fried mushrooms, monkfish, and lamb mixed grill. We were having a wonderful time until a man who introduced himself as Jeff and was the owner. He sat beside us and inserted himself into our conversation and started talking only to my wife which made her visibly uncomfortable. He touched her leg and her shoulder and kept vaping in our faces which smelled awful. I don’t think smoking was allowed in the restaurant. He wouldn’t stop talking and kept spewing things like he “makes a lot of money”. A simple “hello / thank you for coming / hope you enjoy the food” would have been sufficient. Once he left, the service staff (who were amazing) apologized for his behavior and the manager, Scott tried to do damage control and offer us a free desert as an apology. We didn’t take it but definitely appreciated the sentiment. 10/10 will definitely never come back here because of him. Also the bad publicity from this restaurant about not paying the previous owner is kind...

As locals, we were seriously hoping for a go-to restaurant, but were seriously disappointed tonight. Fried mushrooms (who fries mushrooms to the point of potato chip quality?) served in the same spicy mayo sauce as the fried green tomatoes, neither memorable, definitely not for $24. The swordfish was cooked well, but rather boring and came with nothing but a grilled lemon. The servers were very young and friendly but definitely not experienced enough to be part of a supposed "Michelin" team. The best part of the evening was the least expensive $48 bottle of Malbec. Sad to say, we will not be returning. We need a restaurant that serves a solid steak, a delicious special burger, and a well thoughtfully prepared seafood dish....