Photo by Jason Varney, courtesy of Rockwell Group
New York City’s only revolving restaurant is spinning again. The View, on the 47th and 48th floors of the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square, reopened this week following a revamp by Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) and David Rockwell’s Rockwell Group. Formerly host to an all-you-can-eat buffet, the two-story restaurant has been reimagined as an upscale dining destination inspired by “American supper clubs and chop houses of earlier eras.”
The View, along with its revolving dining room, first opened in 1985. Reimagining the classic restaurant, which has been closed for the last five years, Rockwell Group used burl wood, Venetian plaster, antique mirrors, and velvet blue drapery, inspired by the stage curtains in nearby Broadway theaters. The moody lighting makes the surrounding 360 city views even more spectacular.
A series of overlapping concentric circles on the ceilings on both floors create points of reference that change as the restaurant spins.
The two-floor restaurant includes a bar and lounge on the 48th floor, which will complete one 360-degree rotation every 45 minutes, and a main dining room on the 47th floor, which will spin slightly slower at one rotation per hour. A spiral staircase connects the two levels.
“The View’s mission is simple: to capture the lively energy of Broadway’s Theater District showcasing a familiar American menu whose dishes are even better than you ever knew they could be,” USHG Founder and Executive Chairman Danny Meyer said. “It’s your new ‘night out on the town’ where the floor just happens to rotate.”
Menu items honor American classics, with a modern twist. Find shrimp cocktail, Caesar salad, and Jumbo Lump Blue Crab cake to start, with seared duck breast, wild halibut, and steak, as entrees. Desserts round things out with a Jubilee Sundae, with stracciatella ice cream and brownie bites, a towering chocolate cake, and classic New York Cheesecake.
The beverage program has a vast wine selection and impressive cocktail menu, which includes partnering with Katz’s Deli on the Katz’s Martini (there’s a blend of pastrami spices on the rim) and with Magnolia Bakery for the Whipped and Swirled cocktail, a nod to the bakery’s famous banana pudding.
“In so many ways, The View feels like the perfect culmination of my past experiences. A more grown up and elevated expression of the food I’ve always gravitated towards cooking,” Executive Chef Marjorie Meek-Bradley, who was most recently the consulting chef at The Corner Store, said.
“These dishes strike that perfect balance of honoring American classics, without remaining stagnant or being unnecessarily overwrought.”
The View is located at 1535 Broadway in the Marriot Marquis. The 48th-floor bar and lounge is open daily from 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. for walk-ins. The lower level dining room is open daily from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.; make a reservation for the dining room here.
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