Gotham Bar and Grill

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What began as a raucous eighties-style grand café has mellowed over two decades into a trusted American classic with Alfred Portale relentlessly pursuing perfection in the kitchen. Settle into a cocoon of informal but informed service. Then, depending on the season, rediscover Portale’s discipline in a lush risotto with sweet turnips and duck confit, or in seared yellowfin propped against pappardelle rolled around caponata in which each vegetable is like a jewel. — Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld

Three-course lunch, $35; Four-course dinner with aperitif, $75

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Best of New York Awards

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• Food Network (4/19/04)

Recipes at Gotham Bar and Grill

• Pole-and-Shell-Bean Salad With Mint (2004)
• Warm Asparagus With Spring Leeks, Fava Beans, and Mushroom Jus (2004)
• Watermelon-Cucumber Popsicles (2003)