![]() For all its style, you’d think Chinese Tuxedo would have more swagger. ![]() ![]() Honey-glazed char siu ($28) tastes exactly as it’s supposed to, as sweet and rosy as a blushed cheek, but picking it out of a lineup would be near impossible, and a stir fry of steamed chicken and tofu skin registers as pale and timid as it looks ($25). More solid starters are the battered batons of crispy eggplant, sticky with peanut caramel and humming with Szechuan peppercorns ($14), and the roasted duck salad ($24), which pairs the supple slips of bird with ripe lychee and black vinegar. House dumplings ($16) cradle juicy pork, but it’s difficult to unearth that salty swine, thanks to a chewy, too-thick wrapper it’s a particularly comic affront when you realize the dumpling great Nom Wah Tea Parlor is next door. G’s, and yields a less-fruitful take on the kind of pricey neo-Chinese that you can find at Mission Chinese Food and Fung Tu a mere few blocks away. Chinese Tuxedo Chinese 5 Doyers Street, Chinatown 64 Reserve a Table When you make a reservation at an independently reviewed restaurant through our site, we earn an. The kitchen is led by chef Paul Donnelly, a Scotsman who previously oversaw the East Asian fusion plates at Sydney’s Ms. The modern Cantonese cooking served at Chinese Tuxedo, however, doesn’t share the sense of occasion that’s promised by the heavily stylized room or the restaurant’s name, a reference to a turn-of-the-20th-century fine-dining destination that was once located across the street. But instead of pinstripe-primped gangsters seated around its white-marble tables, you have leather-jacketed editors and long-haired downtown gents who you’ll have to look at twice to figure out if they’re that actor from that show. In another life, the clubby room could have served as the suave setting for a Scorsese mob epic-the original space, fittingly, was once the gang headquarters of the Hip Sing Tong, back when Doyers was known as the Bloody Angle. Black half-moon banquettes, towering tropical plants and plenty of burnished brass define the sprawling downstairs dining room, with intimate two-tops perched on the theater’s mezzanine level above for ample people-watching. The restaurant leans heavily on the building’s native architectural bones original pillars, high-ceilings. Housed inside an old two-story opera house on Chinatown’s Doyers Street-a winding alley that looks so stereotypically “New York,” it might as well be a Hollywood back lot-the contemporary Chinese restaurant, from the Liberty’s former owner Eddy Buckingham and general contractor Jeff Lam, is fitted with a theatrical glamour. Set inside the former headquarters of Chinatown’s notorious Tong wars and one-time Chinatown Opera House, Chinese Tuxedo features a menu of reimagined traditional Chinese banquet dishes by international executive chef, Paul Donnelly. That a restaurant called Chinese Tuxedo would be so concerned with style isn’t exactly surprising. Chinese Tuxedo (Published 2017) Fusion done right at this revamped theater on Doyers Street in Chinatown in Manhattan. HONG KONG All students of fashion know how the 20th century transformed women’s clothing in the West.
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