Valbella At The Park

Good food, but not memorable. Good location and ambience. It is ridiculously expensive. I would be embarrassed to say how much we spent on dinner, but be prepared for sticker shock.

This place is so strange. The location is great and the ambiance is nice but the staff hover to the point of making it very uncomfortable and the menu is all over the place (sushi and Italian). Our server was upselling pretty hard too. The food was mediocre. We got the zucchini and shrimp as appetizer and the sea bass and branzino for entrees. For the branzino, even the presentation felt odd. It came with one and a half fingerling potatoes and a slice tomato under asparagus. For the money, there are much better options in nyc. They do have an extensive wine, scotch and bourbon list though if that is your interest.

Valbella at the Park is a decent choice when in Manhatten. 3 levels, with the second floor bar area seeming to have the most action and the best feel. Entrance is in the middle of the two connecting streets, little tricky for uber drivers, unless they have been there before themselves. We enjoyed ourselves as a large private party, service was a bit spotty though and the food, while good was not over the top by any stretch... Parking: Good luck finding parking anywhere in NYC! Uber, take a cab or walk if you are comfortable doing so...

Great location. Lovely and attentive service. Impressive (albeit exoensive) wine list. Food was mostly good. Grilled branzino was a bit dull. Veal parmesan was okay. Seafood pasta was delicious and flavourful.

Listen it’s lovely and fancy, but couldn’t help feeling like they just trying to milk you to buy as much as possible. We were a large group in the wine room, but with the cheapest wine being $180? Just untenable.

Something was just odd about this place. The food was good but not great. Service was attentive to the point of being smothering. The food that was pushed by the server wasn’t great. We had the zucchini blossoms and octopus to start. Neither were inspired. The server said the octopus was on fava beans when it was on chickpeas. He pushed the egg ravioli which too wasn’t inspired. It was rich and was drowning in the sauce. Overall not great.