HALL — Restaurant in New York

The famous Michelin chef creation of the Wagyu burger without breaking a bank. This place is the bar seats outside two Michelin star kaiseki restaurant odo. It opens at 5:30pm and its first come first with two small tables and bar seats.they don’t take reservation so be prepared to wait if you don’t come at when it’s open.

The interior is dark, hard to see the menu and the food with the little candle on the table. Flashlight is your best friend, especially to take a good photo of your food.

Me and my partner shared the A5 Wagyu steak burger and foie gras Wagyu burger. The Wagyu is great eating by itself, it melts in your mouth, but I didn’t get the appear of in the burger, it’s also super messy to eat they will fall apart coming from the sides. Not sure if our foie gras is not cooked well. But it’s still cold in the middle. Wish they had seared a little bit longer to bring out the foie gras flavor.

All the burgers are reasonably priced. Each order come with the fries. The drinks are not memorable, I had a sugar baby, which is very tiny portion. I specially asked for something not sweet, they recommend this one taste super sweet with a sweet dry plum in the bottom. Very disappointed. Overall, I’m glad I tried it and probably but it won’t be my go to...

Good: Dishes were generally good. The signature burger is in the middle of Japanese and American style. The burns are not wet, but the meat included wagu. The truffles fries were soso. Yuzu? draft beer was good. Quite good Japanese whisky were in there. Cocktails seem good, but I didn't try.

Bad: Beer is so tiny. Really tiny. The fries are cold. The restaurant is really small. The bartender is subtly unkind. First, when the bartender made cocktails, the equipment was put in front of me. Not his desk, my desk. I have never seen such things before. Second, I asked to keep the menus so that I could read carefully, but they took it after a few minutes. Third, when I read the menu, the bartender spoke to me as if to rush me. He was in front of me, so he definitely noticed that I was still reading the menus. When I think the other tables, I can tell that was rushing me. I felt it was rude. But I understand that the restaurant is small and other people were continually coming so I just finished my meal without any additional order.

What I am always saying is that the servers and bartenders affect not only the memory of the restaurant but also the taste of the dishes. But, unfortunately, I feel good service restaurants are...

Short Summary:

Positive: tasty burgers, pretty interior Negative: terrible service, very low lighting (hard to read menu), do not ask for how the meat should be cooked,

Long explanation:

Hall was on our must try list for quite some time so we finally checked it out a few days ago. Unfortunately, the experience was pretty underwhelming due to the service.

We were the only customers and sat at the bar. The bartender did not even try to make us feel welcome at all and pretty much ignored us after we’ve ordered. We first thought he had a bad day, but when other staff passed him he cheered up and was a different person as long as they were around. We did not feel welcome at all. In a place where you pay over $20 for a cocktail, we expected good service - especially at the bar.

The food was good (we had the classic burgers) even though they do not ask how you want the meat cooked. My boyfriend’s meat was cooked medium and mine was medium-well done (and I prefer medium rare).

There are great places to get burgers in the area, so we won’t be...