Tuome

Tuome serves an ingredient driven contemporary American menu with Asian influences in the East Village.

Step into the understated yet comfortable dining room of this buzzed-about restaurant, an outlier in a neighborhood that caters to college kids. Tuome brings upscale, thoughtful cuisine to the far eastern part of the East Village. Deviled eggs are inevitably ordered by every table, but for good reason as they are deep-fried and topped with chili relish. Octopus, char-broiled with pork and brown...

Like so many other places in the era of Noma, Tuome is tastefully spartan in appearance. Its two small dining rooms are furnished with small tables set with small menus printed in small type. In terms of glitz and glamour, Tuome falls somewhere between a yoga studio and Thoreau’s cabin. You have probably eaten in dozens of rooms like this in the past few years, and eaten dishes that look like...