Pier 26 kosher restaurant — Restaurant in New York

This kosher (under supervision of VHQ) restaurant is a high end , white table cloth dairy restaurant specializing in fish and pasta. The menu is very "foodie" oriented, with many unusual items . Some of them work very well, others not so much. I was very glad to see this type of restaurant opened on Main Street, as there was no high end place to take a client or for family events.

The decor is beautiful , as you can see from the pictures. It's not too loud- the restaurant was about half full when I was there and you could have a conversation without screaming. The background music was a little loud for my taste, but it wasn't too annoying.

Service was very good- the waitress clearly knew the menu and was able to answer our questions. Their is an extensive wine and spirit list, but surprisingly , no beer availability. I have been to several kosher restaurants with several types of craft beer : perhaps they haven't gotten around to it yet.

I had the Branzino, with corn chowder. The fish was too heavily fried. The frying seems to cover the flavor- essentially it was like a very expensive ($44) fried fish sandwich. However, the corn chowder was great-very complex, with lots of different flavors that worked together very well.

My wife had as an appetizer the Ninja Star appetizer, which was also overly fried. Other people who have eaten at the restaurant have said their entree was fried and greasy. I didn't find my meal too greasy but it was definitely heavily fried.

I love that a restaurant comes in and tries all kinds of interesting, unusual dishes- it's not surprising not all of them work. I hope the restaurant is successful. I plan to...

I had the absolute WORST experience here with my friend. First, we were introduced with a sauce stain on my plate and a lipstick stain on the glass that was brought to us. We had to go get menus ourselves after a long wait. We ordered a Greek salad, baked ziti and pizza. No special order or anything crazy. After around a 45 min wait, we were presented with a greek salad with the cheese on the side. After we questioned if this salad was ours, since we didn’t special order anything, the waiter assured us that this is how they make the Greek salad. 10 min later, another waiter comes with a Greek salad with the cheese mixed in. Clearly the original salad was someone else’s. Every few minutes, a waiter came with food that wasn’t ours. It was a mess. Everyone around us was complaining. Our baked ziti was given to another table, who explained they didn’t order that and it was brought back to the kitchen as we were yelling it was ours. After 10 minutes of trying to find a waiter, we told him that ziti was ours. It was cold by the time we got it. We ended up canceling the pizza and asking for the check because at this point we were waiting over an hour. At this point we were not feeling well from the food. The waiter we asked the check for went and sat down with another table, mingling with his friends rather than giving us our check. Long story short, everything was a mess. Never again. Btw we weren’t the only one who cancelled their food and asked for the check. This place is a mess, even the waiter didn’t deny it. Also this place is run by waiters who were literal children. They didn’t look a...

Pros: Delicious food and drinks. Enormous portions. Each dish can feed at least 2 people. Greetings from the executive chef and decent service overall.

Cons: Prices are slightly higher than they should be. Paying close to 40 dollars for pasta (handmade, and a show) still seems steep. As mentioned above the service was decent. Could be warmer with letting the diners eat without having to constantly ask to remove “possible empty plates” where they have food on them.

Lastly, almost none of the servers were wearing masks and that creates too much room for error. For that reason, I’m out.

-Suggestion would be to give a heads up (about the masks) for those making reservations in advance. (Even if there’s no mandate)

Overall, I would recommend this for those able to splurge a bit on a definitely unique experience.

Side note: noticed a slight price increase already from what the menu says online. For a restaurant that just opened.

-Suggestion would be to give the community time to acclimate and build up a reputation before making that leap.

Good luck to pier26! Hope you succeed the best...