The New York Times

Hudson Yards Welcomes the Chefs

Florence Fabricant

On March 15, a new dining hub will open on the western edge of Midtown Manhattan in Hudson Yards…[by] developers Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group. Many of the restaurants involve familiar names like Thomas Keller, David Chang, Michael Lomonaco, Costas Spiliadisand José Andrés, among others, with some restaurant imports from England and California. Most of the dining options are clustered in a central one-million-square-foot, seven-story building, the Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards.

The chef and restaurateur Thomas Keller is ‘taking a page out of history’ for TAK Room, which represents a return to “continental” dining…It opens after a successful tryout for the idea at the new Surf Club Restaurant by Thomas Keller in Miami…A small Bouchon Bakery will also open on the fifth floor of the building.

Chef Michael Lomonaco and Christopher Himmel are opening a steakhouse and then some, more varied and casual than Mr. Lomonaco’sPorter House Bar and Grill in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle. Like most of the other restaurants in the Hudson Yards building, it has an open kitchen…” 

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