Hotel stories straight to your inbox:

Tag: Hotel Restaurnts View All Tags

Ago at DeNiro's Greenwich Hotel Gets Zero Stars from Frank Bruni

Go To The Hotel's Web 
  Site Where: 377 Greenwich Street [map], New York, NY, United States, 10013

June 11, 2008 at 10:44 AM | 3 Comments

We actually feel sort of bad for Robert DeNiro today. The Ago restaurant inside his Greenwich Hotel (from chef Agostino Sciandri) suffered a humiliating beating from NY Times food critic Frank Bruni--receiving zero stars and a "Poor" rating.

This restaurant isn't in the hospitality business. It's in the attitude business, projecting an aloofness that permeated all of my meals there, nights of wine and poses for swingers on the make, cougars on the prowl and anyone else who values a sort of facile fabulousness over competent service or a breaded veal Milanese with any discernible meat.

Yikes. But despite a terrible review from Bruni, clueless Manhattanites and celeb wannabes must still be hitting up this "hotspot." Bruni recommends making reservations three weeks in advance for prime time seatings.

Send us a tip