Daniel Humm's three-star tasting-menu landmark on Madison Square Park, mostly plant-based but with meat and fish back on the menu since October 2025.
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The verdict
Worth the table for…
Great for
If you've only got a day
Couples
Solo travellers
Foodies
Photographers
The genuinely curious
Depends
Travellers on a budget
Romantics
Not for
Families with kids
Worth it for if you've only got a day, couples and solo travellers; not for families with kids.
What to order
The plates that decide it
The full tasting menu (now with plant-based or fish/meat courses) — a set journey — choose your path through it and surrender to the sequence
The honey-lavender duck — a returning EMP classic, back on the menu since the October 2025 reintroduction of meat
Trying to order à la carte — the experience is the set menu; don't fight it
Why we say this
Insider secrets & local vibes
It holds three Michelin stars, and after four years all-vegan it reintroduced fish and meat in October 2025 — so the famously inventive vegetable cooking now sits alongside dishes like its honey-lavender duck.
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The landmarked Art Deco dining room overlooking Madison Square Park is one of the great spaces in American dining.
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At ~$385 a head before pairings it's among the priciest tables in the city, and the rigid 3.5-hour set format means no à la carte — a steep, all-or-nothing commitment.
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What it feels like
Reading the room, traveller by traveller
Adventurous
The kitchen's vegetable wizardry is still the headline act, and you can now weave in the fish and meat courses too — go hungry and let them lead.
Skeptics
The 2021 all-vegan gamble is over; with animal options back since October 2025, even committed carnivores have a real reason to book.
Good to know
Before you go
Cost
Tasting menu ~$385 per person, before pairings (bar tasting ~$225)
Time
3–3.5 hours
Last verified
2026-06-17
Best time
Book the moment reservations drop, ~4 weeks out
Booking
Tickets/reservations release in advance and sell out
Accessibility
Formal, long tasting format
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