Lotus Blue

Lotus Blue is located at 110 Reade St, New York, NY. This business specializes in Restaurants.

Chinese cuisine from the Yunnan province.

From the owner of a Lotus Blue in Beijing, where the food is Thai, comes what might be the first Manhattan restaurant that specializes in the food of the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan, on the border with Burma and Laos. “Yunnan is a melting pot,” said Jeffrey Lim, a partner, adding that unlike elsewhere in China, fresh herbs like mint are significant. Among the dishes are a salad of...

Doubles the city’s possibilities for sampling Yunnan cuisine. Province is in Southeast Asia, utilizes the cilantro, chili, and banana leaves you know/love from Thai and Vietnamese cooking. Menu is stacked with tastes you won’t find elsewhere: chrysanthemum greens salad, grilled oysters topped with tomato and pineapple salsa, tiger prawns with candied olives. Spicing carries over to the back...

Lotus Blue's lead investor has two restaurants in Beijing, and this is his first foray into the U.S. With the intent of bringing something fresh to the New York restaurant scene, the menu successfully introduces the city to a modern twist on the cooking of Yunnan province. This region, located in the southwest corner of China, has a rich, varied cuisine due to culinary influences from...

Casual yet elegant, Lotus Blue is New York’s first full service restaurant offering Chinese food inspired by the cuisine of Yunnan province. Tucked in the southwest corner of China, Yunnan begins as a tropical lowland in the south and rises steadily up the steep slopes of the Himalayan Mountains to the border of Tibet in the north. Local chefs have a wide variety of ingredients from which to...