One of my friends always likes to sample high-end restaurants during Restaurant Week. Smart lady. That’s why the three of us ended at Jean-Georges’s newest midtown restaurant Four Twenty Five that opened about a year ago.

Like all Jean-Georges’ locales, it didn’t disappoint, starting with the flavorful amuse bouche of a chickpea cake topped with miso mixed with hummus and topped with yuzu. A burst of flavor.

We each chose the delicious restaurant meal lunch for $60, all three of us starting with the Butternut Squash Soup with
caramelized squash, the unusual kohlrabi sauerkraut and pumpkin seed tapenade, giving it more texture.

I ordered the pan-roasted hake with a jalapeño-hakurei (Japanese small, mild sweet ones) turnip emulsion flavored with apple, ginger and yuzu again. My friends each had the milk-braised Berkshire pork ravioli with pecorino romano and tellicherry peppers. I preferred the fish.

For dessert, we shared the caramel custard with banana chantilly, brown butter caramel and crème fraîche ice cream from the restaurant week menu and added two additional desserts from their main menu. The Chocolate Almond moelleux, with black cardamom cremeux, tonka whipped ganache, buckwheat caramel and marzipan ice cream ($18), and the apple confit layer cake with apple butter a calvados sabayon, Speculoos crumble and vanilla ice cream ($17).

Profiterole filled with halava and a ginger-cranberry jelly.

 

Four Twenty Five, a Jean-Georges Restaurant
Midtown
425 Park Ave
New York, NY 10022
(212) 751-6921
jean-georges.com/restaurants/united-states/new-york/four-twenty-five