Porter House New York Restaurant Review:
Porter House New York offers views of Central Park from its fourth floor perch in Time Warner Center. Designed by Jeffrey Beers, the restaurant’s look features masculine tones in caramels and browns that contrast with the white tablecloths in the dining room. Instead of offering avant-garde riffs on steakhouse standards, chef Michael Lomonaco delivers the classics straight up. It’s the breadth...
Porter House, the steakhouse that replaced Jean-Georges Vongerichten's V Steakhouse, has completely erased all vestiges of its ill-fated predecessor. The former brothel palette of red and gold has given way to masculine tones in caramels…
From "fabulous" cuts of meat to "interesting" sides, a "feast awaits" at Michael Lomonaco's TWC "destination steakhouse" where "impeccable" service helps justify the "expensive" prices; indeed, the Central Park views from the "elegant" dining room are as "impressive" as the food.
The space, in the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, is sleek with large leather banquettes for groups along with smaller, white tableclothed tables by the floor-to-ceiling windows looking out on Central Park, is magnificent. But even if there was no view, this steakhouse satisfies the essentials of the best red meat emporiums, with a few inventive twists. I gambled by ordering the...