ABC Kitchen

A home decor store is hardly the place you'd expect to find a superlative dining experience, but ABC Kitchen (located within ABC Carpet & Home) delivers. This venture between home decor giant and celebrated chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten paid off handsomely when it was voted "Best New Restaurant of 2011" by the James Beard Foundation. ABC Kitchen's delicious American fare is more than worthy of...

Expensive, eclectic ABC Carpet & Home has three eateries, including this one, which comes courtesy of famed restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Using organic and local ingredients, executive chef Dan Kluger (formerly of Tabla, Union Square Café, and Core) serves seasonal New American fare like kasha and bowtie pasta topped with homemade meatballs, roasted Chatham cod with citrus emulsion and rotating whole-wheat pizzas designed by consulting chef Jim Lahey (of the Sullivan Street Bakery). Naturally, the low-lit, largely white dining room has its own share of environmentally sound bona...

Everyone talks a big game when it comes to seasonal cooking, but to my mind this place and Gramercy are the final word on the subject. I'm not completely in love with the room but the food is good in winter, glorious in spring, inspiring in summer, and very good in fall.

Meat dishes may get a lot of attention in the press these days, but let's not forget that New York City restaurants are also home to some very fine plates of greens. Here, now, is a guide to 13 essential sit-down salads across the city. They range far beyond the usual lettuce and vinaigrette, but most are best eaten while the weather's still warm. So get on it:

Jean-Georges Vongerichten opened The Inn at Pound Ridge, his rural Westchester restaurant, this week. It's housed in a building that dates back to 1883 and that was, for a long time, actually an inn. Now it's been refurbished into a two-story restaurant, with stone walls, wood floors, and working fireplaces.

The Inn falls into the growing family of ABC restaurants (Vongerichten tells Grub...

There are few places in the world where you can browse for a Persian rug or new furniture and then mull over possible purchases at an elegant restaurant in the same building. Welcome to ABC Kitchen, Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s restaurant on the ground floor of ABC Carpet & Home. In keeping with the style of the moment---that is, 2010---the food here has an organic and locally sourced focus. The...

Everyone talks a big game when it comes to seasonal cooking, but to my mind this place and Gramercy are the final word on the subject. I'm not completely in love with the room but the food is good in winter, glorious in spring, inspiring in summer, and very good in fall.

abc kitchen: local organic original environmentally conscious food. a new restaurant at abc carpet & home in nyc with chef jean georges vongerichten.RESTAURANT