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Anthos Restaurant

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36 W. 52nd St., New York, NY 10019 40.760242 -73.97745
nr. Fifth Ave.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-582-6900 Send to Phone

  • Cuisine: Greek
  • Price Range: $$$$
  • Critics' Rating: **
  • Reader Rating: Write a Review
Photo by RJ Mickelson/Veras

Official Website

anthosnyc.com

Hours

Mon-Thu, noon-2:30pm and 5pm-10:30pm; Fri, noon-2:30pm and 5pm-11pm; Sat, 5pm-11pm; Sun, closed

Nearby Subway Stops

B, D, F, M at 47th-50th Sts.-Rockefeller Center; E, M at Fifth Ave.-53rd St.

Payment Methods

American Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa

Special Features

  • Lunch
  • Notable Chef
  • Notable Wine List
  • Special Occasion
  • Online Reservation

Alcohol

  • Full Bar

Reservations

Recommended

Profile

This venue is closed.

The architect of the menu at Anthos is Michael Psilakis, a talented, kinetic chef who is fast becoming the poster boy of Greek revival, the Mario Batali of “New Aegean” cuisine. Psilakis opened his first haute-Greek establishment, Onera, a few years ago, on the Upper West Side. Then came Dona, an elegant, three-star, “Pan-Mediterranean” operation run with his partner, the restaurateur Donatella Arpaia. Psilakis and Arpaia have since replaced Onera with a more classically Greek restaurant called Kefi, and Dona closed after the lease was bought out to make room for a hotel. Anthos, which occupies a boxy, innocuous space among the towers of midtown (there’s a standard bar up front, a large mirror in the back, and white walls decorated with paintings of random, un-Greek cherry blossoms), feels like a curious jumble of these previous restaurants. It’s more upscale than Kefi but less elaborately produced than Dona, with a shorter menu and a more straightforward culinary focus. The culinary focus at Anthos is Greece, of course, though whether Psilakis’s grandmother (he grew up in a Greek-American family on Long Island) would recognize anything on her plate is doubtful. Psilakis is a self-taught cook, unencumbered by traditions and orthodoxies. One of his signature dishes is crudi (mostly fish, but occasionally meat), served with a profusion of esoteric ingredients, in the small-plate style of Greek meze. Here he offers sweet Taylor Bay scallops touched with peppermint and pistachio, slices of yellowtail dusted with fennel pollen, and nickel-size slivers of raw tuna dabbed with lemons and mastic oil, which, in case you didn’t know, is a kind of resin made from a tree that grows on the island of Chios.

Prix-Fixe

$28 and $38 prix fixes are available at lunch, there’s a $38 pre-theater menu at dinner, and an $95 chef’s tasting menu that includes Psilakis coming out to talk.

Note
The Greek white wines are well-chosen, particularly those from Santoríni.

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