Chambers — Restaurant in New York

There's something serendipitous about walking past a restaurant in New York that you haven't heard of and can barely notice from the street and it turning out to be a gem.

I would eat in this place even if the food were terrible because the acoustics were so good! Okay, I'm lying, but this is a lovely restaurant and you can hear each other!

The owner / manager, Jared was gracious and funny. The entire atmosphere of the restaurant is very chill. Even when it got busy there was still this calm and it was never crazy noisy.

I was very intrigued by the sign over the bar that kept changing, like the ones you find in a train station. Very nice touch!

The cocktails were elegant-looking and delicious. The names were fun and the flavors made you want to drink a pitcher of them. I resisted also getting the Tiki Or Not Tiki like rest of my group. Garnish was simple but striking -- a leaf of shiso in a glass with a large ice cube. They both loved it!

I had the La Capilla which was a tricked out Paloma. The garnish was a sumac and salt edge around half the glass that I licked off happily.

Chambers is like a neighborhood restaurant that you want to go to over and over. The food looked beautiful when it hit the table and each dish was well executed without being over handled. The bread -- sesame pizza bianca -- will make you cry. At first, I thought, "No butter?" Then, I tasted it and thought, "Damn, that's good!”

We had four appetizers, four mains, all the veggies, and two desserts.

Loved the beets with one of my favorite blue cheeses ever the Bailey Hazen blue from Jasper Hill farms and smoked panko.

The escarole salad was gorgeous looking. Tender yellow escarole that looked a bit like tulip petals and popped with the carrot slices and the pickled orange peppers.

Manila clams in a celery root curry with stinging nettles, who'd of thunk it? Very tasty!

The mains were all solid. Great ingredients done well so they make you happy to eat them.

The chicken was perfectly cooked, beautifully browned, topped with spinach on a puddle of sauce.

The sauce on the sea bass was just really well done. Meyer lemon bernaise equals dreamy. The beef was tender and delish with spring alliums and mustardy potatoes

One of our party was allergic to mushrooms so we had to eat more of the pork tenderloin. I love that it wasn't overcooked. Pink pork can be a little off-putting for some but it was really good.

Be sure to have the veggie sides. I'm going to recreate the sweet potatoes at home tonight. Asparagus were all dente with an excellent anchovy mayo. The carrots were sticky with a tumble of toasted pistachios and fresh herbs.

We had to Google the ice cream flavor, bordiga centum herbis = 100 herbs, served with the flourless chocolate cake because our Latin was rusty. It balanced really nicely with the bittersweet cake.

We demolished the marscapone and phyllo Napoleon --crispy,...

I visited for my partners birthday and had a fantastic experience from start to finish. The staff was very accommodating, especially when I needed to correct a reservation mistake I made through OpenTable messaging. They handled it promptly and professionally.

The service stood out as the highlight of the evening. The sommelier took the time to understand our preferences and recommended a French white wine that paired beautifully with our meal. We visited during that 100 deg heatwave and they only poured in small amounts throughout the night to ensure it stayed chilled. I think 3 or 4 different people came to pour us wine a couple times each, making sure we never had an empty glass. Attention detail was impeccable. Talking about the heatwave… they may need to find a better balance with AC for the summer months. We were sweating at the table a bit but we understood the circumstances weren’t typical.

We ordered nine dishes total, including a complimentary sesame bread. Seven of them were outstanding. The only two that didn’t quite meet the mark for us were a side of potatoes and the Berkshire pork entrée. The pork was a little too salty and underwhelming.

But by far the standout dish was the snow dance chicken. Easily one of the best I’ve ever had, and I’m pretty sure every table ordered it too. It had a unique, almost Thai-inspired coq au vin vibe that was incredibly memorable.

For dessert, the mascarpone was insanely good. Would go back just for that and the snowdance chicken.

While the atmosphere wasn’t exactly my preference. the quality of the food and service more than made up for it. Highly recommend for a special occasion or elevated dining experience.

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What a delightful & delicious experience! By the end we almost wanted to move to TriBeCa just so we could dine there every week. No prob tho', just take the E train to World Trade (last stop) and walk two more blocks to Chambers. We eschewed the first course offerings in favor of an entree and side per each which was great but we noticed the four-top next to us made an entire meal sharing nearly, if not all, of the starters...an idea for next time. Eggplant parm was thin, light, crispy & cheesy. The sauce had real depth and the entire dish was entirely satisfying. The roasted lamb with cranberry beans and artichokes was absolutely perfect...tender and flavorful way beyond expectation. We accompanied both with a mega order of roasted late season okra dusted with BBQ seasonings and a creamy presentation of barely cooked but warm yellow corn in a not overpowering ramp pesto. Our wine choice was driven by our new interest in all things Portuguese...see below. We were quite well handled by our waiter Ryan but the sommelier could have been a bit more attentive. The atmosphere is modern, convivial and almost a remembrance of how things "used to be" pre-pandemic. Maybe if we all squint a little (or a lot)...it never really...