The Modern New York City

The Modern sits on 9 W 53rd St, positioned just steps away from the Museum of Modern Art. It is a five-minute walk from the core of Fifth Avenue shopping and a fifteen-minute walk from the noise of Times Square.

The restaurant holds a Michelin star and serves a contemporary, South American-inflected menu that ignores the frantic pace of its midtown surroundings. While the room runs smart and elegant, its actual utility is found in its geography: it provides a precise, focused dining experience that renders the nearby tourist thoroughfares irrelevant. You choose this table for the contrast it draws against the block-long lines at the museum entrance. It is a calculated retreat that proves you can find deliberate stillness even in the most trafficked square mile of the city.