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Over the Top Dining: Russian Tea Room Reopens

Midtown Manhattan is normally not the kind of place we'd tell you to get some grub. (Something about dirty water dogs and the criminally overpriced Carnegie Deli doesn't get our stomachs growling.) But when a landmark like the Russian Tea Room reopens after four long years, we have to sing a "Na Zdorovia!" to the restaurant on 57th Street.

There's little word on menu specifics at this point, but the food--good as it may be--isn't really the reason captains of industry and those who love them flock to the Tea Room. It's the big acrylic juggling bear aquarium/centerpiece, the boldfaced names at the table next to you and cavorting like a tsar with a frosty bottle of vodka, a stack of blinis and bowl of caviar that make the Tea Room special. It's the kind of only-in-New-York restaurant you really only can find in New York. It's open for dinner tonight--if you can get a table.

[Photo: New York]

Related Stories:
· First Look Inside the Russian Tea Room [Grub Street]
· The Russian Tea Room [Restaurant Girl]
· Tea Room Coming Back [NYT]