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The Main Dining Room.
The Main Dining Room.
Just another steakhouse and sushi bar in NYC? I think not.

Rising from the ashes of La Carne Grill comes Avi and Reuven Cohen’s La Brochette, a newly and immacualtely renovated Kosher  steakhouse and sushi bar located in Midtown at 340 Lexington Avenue, between 39th and 40th.

My wife, Yve, and I attended the restaurant Wednesday night to see what all the hype is about. In a few short words: the place is just superb.

To start with: the layout. La Brochette is huge, comfortably seating 120 people, spread out amongst four tiers: the main dining room, the balcony, the sky room, and the lounge. This allows for terrific spacing amongst the guests, never allowing the noise level to reach uncomfortable proportions in any one location.

In addition, there is also a glassed-in VIP room, great for an intimate family gathering or a business meeting over lunch or dinner; a large TV screen offers the perfect oppurtunity for presentations or videos. Each of the main rooms can also host it’s own party or business meeting, with large screens of their own, offering privacy from other patrons.

Now, for the food. Ah, the food …

We each began with an appetizer.  Yve, upon a recommendation from our terrific and terrificly charming server, opted for the Dragon Roll off the sushi menu: grilled sea bass, asparagus, cucumber, crunch, chives, with avocado on top. I pilfered a few pieces when the remarkably tasty-looking dish arrived. The roll provided an explosion of flavor, and Yve and I would later agree it was the highlight of a meal with many highlights. In fact, it was the kind of dish that makes your face do the sorts of things that make other diners tell their waiter, “I’ll have what they’re having.”

For myself, always a fan of a scrumptious-sounding soup, I went with the Beef Caramelized Onion Soup: made with wagyu meat broth and served with garlic croutons. Suffice it to say, it tasted as good as it sounds. I would have asked for seconds, but Yve gave me a look that hinted I’d better not.

To the mains we went!

Yve, this time her own choice coming in conjunction with our server’s, went with the Chicken Marsala: lightly sautéed chicken breast with wild mushrooms, whipped mash potatoes, and Marsala wine sauce. I went with a recommendation of the 14oz Center Cut Ribeye: served with frizzled onions and a grilled tomato.

My steak came seasoned and cooked to perfection, and went down nicely with a glass of Barkan Merlot.

Yve, several bites into her chicken, declared, “This is how chicken marsala should taste.” Naturally, I tried a bite—and she was right. She seemed a tad depressed by this declaration, however, and I wonder how long it will be now before I see chicken marsala at Shabbat dinner again.

Satisfied, satiated, but not full or bursting at the seams, we ordered the Chocolate Lava Cake for dessert. Wherever Yve and I go for dinner, this is our standard go-to dessert. We’ve made it into a competition to see which restaurant has the best one. Our findings, overall, are thus far inconclusive, but the one we had at La Brochette ranks near the top of the list.

The cake exterior had just the right amount of crunch, while the melted chocolate interior was creamy without being too runny—mixed with a scoop of exceptional vanilla ice-cream, strawberry, and several paper-thin pieces of dried pineapple.

It was the perfect send-off.

And it left us with a no-brainer: we’ll be back.

La Brochette offers a special lunch menu Mon-Fri, from Noon-3pm, and they also deliver. Dinner hours are: Mon-Thurs, 5-11pm; Saturday, from hours after sunset until Midnight; Sunday, 4-10pm.

Parking is available at a discounted amount of $20 in the lot on 39th between Lexington and Park.

Visit LaBrochetteNY.com, or call them at (212) 972-2200, for more information about reservations, hosting events, Shabbat meals, and more.

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