To Find New York's Best New Restaurants, Raise Your Gaze

Taking a page from the Tokyo playbook, upstairs is the new ground floor.
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When the 16 or so restaurants and food concepts open at the hugely anticipated Hudson Yards mega complex on Manhattan’s way West Side in 2018, none will be located on the ground floor.

That’s a purposeful move by Related Companies, the developer behind Hudson Yards, and one it has made before. Its previous projects include the Time Warner Center, which put two of New York’s more expensive dining rooms—Per Se and Masa—up on the 4th floor of the 2.8 million-square-foot complex.