To Find New York's Best New Restaurants, Raise Your Gaze

TakingĀ a page from the Tokyo playbook, upstairs is the new ground floor.
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When the 16 or so restaurants and food concepts open at the hugely anticipated Hudson Yards mega complex on Manhattanā€™s way West Side in 2018, none will be located on the ground floor.

Thatā€™s a purposeful move by Related Companies, the developer behind Hudson Yards, and one it has made before. Its previous projects include the Time Warner Center, which put two of New Yorkā€™s more expensive dining roomsā€”Per Se and Masaā€”up on the 4th floor of the 2.8 million-square-foot complex.