Landmarc

This past Thursday, I took a visiting friend to Landmarc in the Time Warner Center. It's a restaurant I've gone to many a time since it is convenient, solid and reasonably priced. The menu is the same as at the Tribeca location but is varied. They have a daily pasta dish, oysters and mussels, a selection of grill items (steaks, lamb chop, pork chop), a burger, salads, and various offal (sweetbreads, foie gras, calf's liver and boudin noir). It's a very interesting menu to say the least.

Having eaten earlier in the evening, we skipped appetizers and went straight for entrees. He had the ribeye with peppercorn sauce and I had the special of the day, a seared duck breast over vegetables. The bread service as usual was excellent. We ordered a half bottle of a Barolo to go with our meat courses. At $28 for the half bottle, it was an amazing deal and delicious.

My friend quite enjoyed his steak. It was prepared medium rare as ordered and very juicy. I didn't like my duck as much. It was a bit undersalted and definitely not as good as many of the other items on the menu. With so many interesting options on the menu, it's a shame that the "special" just wasn't.

We finished with an ice cream and a tiramisu. All the desserts are $3 and therefore appropriately sized.

I still consider Landmarc one of the best values in the City. Plus it doesn't hurt that it's only a block away.