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Kyotofu
Critics' Pick
705 Ninth Ave.,
New York, NY 10019
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Official Website
Nearby Subway Stops
C, E at 50th St.
Prices
$7-$10
Payment Methods
American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Special Features
- Dine at the Bar
- Great Desserts
- Hot Spot
- Lunch
- Notable Chef
- Open Kitchens / Watch the Chef
- Prix-Fixe
- Romantic
- Take-Out
- Catering
Alcohol
- Sake and Soju
- Full Bar
Reservations
Accepted/Not Necessary
Delivery Area
42nd St. to 60th St., Sixth Ave to West Side Highway
- Order Delivery with seamless.com
Profile
This venue is closed.
This isn’t your college food-co-op tofu, though, or some arbitrary marketing ploy. The owners were inspired by a Kyoto tofu manufacturer, Kyotofu-Fujino, and its affiliated cafés—in fact, the family of one of the partners owns it—but they tailored the concept for a Manhattan market. The menu falls within certain Far Eastern flavor parameters, but desserts fuse Eastern and Western techniques and presentations. They also have a dainty, delicate quality—a femininity, you might say—which makes the place a magnet most nights for dainty, delicate females and chirpy, dessert-nibbling aesthetes of the opposite sex. They’re probably also drawn by the clean, contemporary look of the space, which was conceived by Hiro Tsuruta (the designer of ChikaLicious too) as a home in Kyoto, with a long pathway leading to the entrance, or, in this case, the dining room. On the way, you pass the glass-walled kitchen, where the chef can be seen drizzling syrups and cocking tuiles at jaunty angles.
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Featured In
- Cheap Eats 2008: The Cheap List (7/28/08)
- New York's Best Cheap Eats 2007 (7/30/07)