11/9/2022 0 Comments The ville bar and grill![]() ![]() The glass encased dining area in the main restaurant doesn’t exactly feel tropical. Instead, we were left with a molten chocolate cake that was not actually molten and chalky “New York Style Cheesecake” that was anything but New York. There are a mere three desserts on the menu, and they had run out of the only one claiming to be made from scratch in-house - the Key lime pie. Black beans stuck to rice that seemed cemented to the plate. Stefano GiovanniniĮxcept for a nicely seared “Burger in Paradise” and luscious, fall-off-the-bone baby back ribs, bad dishes outnumbered successful ones by a 4-to-1 margin. Lava Lava shrimp featured more gummy mayo than “Thai chili sauce.” A cut of overcooked grilled salmon was flavorless and minuscule to boot. A grilled salmon dish was overcooked and flavorless. Inspired by the played-to-death Jimmy Buffett song, the Margaritaville eateries hit all the wrong notes. ![]() A 32-foot-high Statue of Liberty raising a tequila cup greets diners. The lower-floor venue looks down on the grungy, none-too-tropical corner of Seventh Avenue and West 40 th Street. ![]() The food’s mostly the same at the two venues, but the much smaller (140 seats) LandShark sits astride an outdoor swimming pool full of splashing kids and canoodling couples. If you must eat at the hotel, head to the pool bar. The main restaurant at the new Margaritaville Resort Times Square is a bust. 1:Įat at the sixth-floor LandShark Bar & Grill, not in the mammoth second- and third-floor restaurant that’s supposedly the “heart and soul” of the 32-story, 234-room tropical-themed hotel. Sporting tacky, fake palm trees, blocky wood tables lined up mess-hall style and a 32-foot-high Statue of Liberty replica raising a glass of its namesake cocktail, Margaritaville reigns as the city’s Most Unnecessary New Restaurant.īut if you insist on having a taste of the new, $370 million Margaritaville Times Square Resort - hey, anything for laughs in a pandemic! - heed Rule No. The last thing it needed was another, near-500-seat tourist eatery. that are struggling to survive until Broadway audiences return. Manhattan’s brightly lit bow-tie area is full of jumbo venues such as Carmine’s, Junior’s and Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. The new Margaritaville restaurant in Times Square claims that it “instantly transports guests to paradise” - but take that with a few more grains of salt than you’d sprinkle on your wrist for a shot of cheap tequila. Stunning but bankrupt NYC hotel gets second chance Nightcrawler Eric Adams genuinely likes NYC - which could be key to bringing it back to life Hudson Yards' Peak has views worthy of Windows on the World, incredible food Grand Central skyscraper would bring new LIRR connection - and poetry readingsħ things Eric Adams must do the minute he’s sworn in as NYC mayor ![]()
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