Where better to eat lunch in more sophisticated surroundings than The Modern? Located in the Museum of Modern Art, The Modern features the original French-American cuisine of Alsatian-born Chef Gabriel Kreuther, in the elegant light-filled dining room and bar within MoMA. The restaurant has won many awards, such as the James Beard Foundation's Best Chef in 2009, for it's innovative cooking and incredible dishes. New York Times gives it three stars in it's 2007 review, and describes it as 'In ways sweeping and intimate, the Modern is a visual knockout, an impressive response to the challenge of creating a space as beautiful and refined as the museum to which it is attached....Alsatian-born, Mr. Kreuther filters that background through his embrace of global influences and less traditional flavor combinations. He does so across an impressive array of selections'. Frank Bruni's recommended dishes include 'sorrel soup; wild mushroom soup; poached egg; sweetbread ravioli; pork cheeks;.... celeriac salad with oysters and American caviar; skate in pimiento nage;.. passion fruit ravioli'.

For more information and delicious menus, check out http://www.themodernnyc.com