Butterfield 9

Frommer's Review

This restaurant offers menus to please everyone, including a bar menu that pairs small plates individually priced at $4 to $6, with a complementary 3-ounce glass of wine, each priced from $4.50 to $6; a $4.50 glass of Vouvray accompanies the $5 dish of ricotta gnocchi, for example. Butterfield also offers a good-value $38 pre/post-theater menu, which gives you three delicious courses for the price of the average dinner entree, and a $70 vegetarian tasting menu. On the regular menu, popular dinner dishes include a roasted pheasant appetizer, roasted ostrich filet, and yellowfin tuna and tiger shrimp served in a black currant and pink peppercorn sauce.

You're sure to spot owner Amarjeet (Umbi) Singh as he circulates through the restaurant. Singh opened Butterfield 9 in 2001 to instant acclaim -- for the food, but also for the sophisticated decor, which features large, stylized black-and-white prints of handsome men and women dressed in 1930s, '40s, and '50s fashions. The overall ambience is of a dinner club from a different era, specifically the one that Nick and Nora Charles inhabited in the Thin Man movies. (Butterfield 9 refers to a phone exchange used in the films.) This is a good choice if you're in the mood for romance, and you should let the staff know that, too, since certain tables provide added intimacy.

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