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Six Columbus Restaurant: "Hit-or-Miss"

Where: 6 Columbus Circle [map], New York, ny, United States, 10019

So. Six Columbus. You've been avoiding our scrutiny as of late. You've even earned some kudos for having really good rates. But your restaurant? Time Out New York is not impressed.

Opened to much fan-fare, Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar & Grill was supposed to bring badass downtown-style eats to the culinary wasteland of NYC's Clinton neighborhood. But TONY's critic Randall Lane says the joint is only doing that half the time:

The dizzying menu--two dozen appetizers, not including 8 soups and 11 types of salad, plus steaks, poultry and tempura--proves disparately hit-or-miss...For every revelation, there were disappointments.

Lane does praise the great sushi, which we also think is terrific. And he's all for the lengthy drinks list. including unpasteurized and hard-to-find sakes. But if it's a culinary revelation you're looking for, Blue Ribbon ain't it.

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[Photo: Ryan Charles for Zagat]

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Blue Ribbon at Six Columbus Is Open

Where: 6 Columbus Circle [map], New York, ny, United States, 10019

And with that, Six Columbus is complete. Everything is open, everything is working and we can finally start obsessing about the Thompson Hotels co-owners instead of their eternally delayed Midtown project.

It would be unfair to critique a restaurant that's open for its first night, so we won't do that. But the bar is open, the bar is serving the full menu and the dining room is open. Hotel guests were staking it out, as were local industry workers with time to kill. We were just looking for some dinner.

We had six Barron Point oysters from the menu of daily specials, served with ponzu sauce. We also had the basic sushi platter: seven nigiri and one roll. There are a few shochu drinks, a well-edited wine-by-the-glass menu and some old-school cocktails.

And, yes, the menu looked very similar to the one in the rooms.

[Photo: Ryan Charles for Zagat]

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