Continental Mid-Town

Frommer's Review

Like its older, Old City sister, this colorful corner martini bar and restaurant is all about good looks, good times, and surprisingly good food. Stylish servers resembling extras on That '70s Show deliver sweet signature cocktails and oversize salads to diners sitting in baby-blue-vinyl car seat booths, a sunken center dining room, swinging chairs on the tile-walled mezzanine, and a popular rooftop deck. This is not the place for a quiet meal, although the noise level diminishes in the back of the second floor.

What to eat here? Most everything on the rainbow-decorated menu is pretty yummy. I especially like the piled-high fried calamari salad, Szechuan shoestring fries, BLT with avocado, rich lobster mac and cheese, beer-battered shrimp and calamari, and juicy lamb chops with ratatouille, hummus, and raita. A word to the hungry: Many plates are small, meant to taste, not to sate. Included in this small-world category are the irresistible, flashback, bite-size desserts: fruit-flavored cotton candy and peanut butter and jam cake.

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