In terms of food, the savory stretch of the menu encompasses about a dozen dishes, wildly uneven in appeal. - Frank Bruni
For all its flash and invention, there isn't much on the menu that adds up to a real meal. - Adam Platt
Unlike dessert-only spots that stick to all things sugary, pastry whiz Pichet Ong (Spice Market, 66) brings a sweet worldview to savory eats at his tiny, mod perch....
In haute-cuisine circles, it often seems that food is considered art first, sustenance second; aspiring chef-auteurs create increasingly high-tech dishes, stacking and sculpting ingredients`liquefied, freeze-dried, or otherwise rendered unrecognizable`into improbably cantilevered facades. - Ligaya Mishan