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“15 East”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	Asian	Gramercy	Moderate	Great

 

15 EAST

A funny thing happens when your friends have babies. They disappear. You don’t see them for a while. As much as you want to, and as much as you talk about how you’ll help, how you’ll visit, during those first few weeks and even months, this rare form of madness falls over your friend the new mother as her life ceases to be her own and becomes merely a proxy for nutrition, hydration, burping, bathing, and diaper changing for her young infant. Her boobs are attached to the mouth of a hungry little peanut, and her sleep schedule is so erratic that at any moment she may be down for the count. When Stacey had her daughter Ella in November, I was at the hospital the day after admiring this beautiful little girl she and her boyfriend had created, and when I left I planned on many visits to her Tribeca apartment. In the five months that Ella has been with us I have seen Stacey three times. The first two weeks I visited weekly, but then I felt like I was in the way, like every time Ella started to doze off, Stacey wanted to do the same and I was the reason she wasn’t. And going out was something she just couldn’t do. Not that I blamed her, it was just a very intense time for her when she was adjusting to being the caregiver for this life that needed her constantly, and she really didn’t have time for things like dinner and a movie.

Last week, all that changed. Stacey has re-joined the world of working mothers and upon returning to work, hired a nanny. As soon as she signed on the dotted line, we made plans for dinner. Knowing that Stacey is a huge sushi lover, we made plans to have dinner at 15 East, Marco Moreira and Jo-Ann Makovitzky’s serene sushi salon in the former Tocqueville space.

15 East is an elegant place, not so much so that you feel the need to dress up, but just enough that you wouldn’t expect to call up for delivery. The space was designed by Richard Block of Masa and Honmura An, with a minimalist sensibility in cool shades of gray and ivory, with a soothing linen lighting that casts the room with a soft pale glow. The sushi bar, crafted from a single plank of dark chocolate colored African bubbinga wood, is lit from above by long white lamps that spotlight each of its nine seats. If you prefer to sit at a proper table, the dining room offers tables for two along a plush banquette or seating for ... [more, click below]

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Posted: May 7, 2007

Other restaurants in Gramercy :
+ Casa Mono/Bar Jamon   + Pure Food & Wine   + Parea   + Gramercy Tavern (Lunch)   + 15 East   + Tocqueville   + Irving Mill   + Bar Milano   + Irving Mill   + Maialino   + Asellina   + Corkbuzz Wine Studio   + Breads, by guest reviewer Tracy Weiss   

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