Reviews Le Coq Rico Nyc

Le Coq Rico gives new meaning to the idea of succulent French roasted chicken. Soups, appetizers, main courses are done with exquisite attention to detail using only the freshest, most appropriate ingredients. If you’re a solo diner, you may want to sit at the kitchen bar to watch the chefs. A wonderful experience! Wow sel ection is excellent. Leave room for dessert, especially Isles Flôttantes, which is truly extraordinary (like the food, service, and warmth of all the staff). Don’t miss it!

One of the most fantastic dinners I've ever had. Pedro was an absolute professional waiter. And the floating island dessert was pure perfection! Can't wait to return again.

Super food, beautiful atmosphere, first class service. Go early when the restaurant is nearly empty, and if dining alone sit at the counter that faces the kitchen and watch the magic unfold with a great glass of wine !

Gorgeous setting. Delicious food! The chicken wrapped with sausage cooked in pumpkin and spinach is to die for!

Visiting from Canada, we were Recommended by some local citizens of Paris to dine at Le Coq Rico - they said that the menu is all about chicken! Typically chicken is not what we order when we go out to done as we eat it at home. But thought we would give this a try out of curiosity. Concierge at our hotel also talked highly about this restaurant! It was a little difficult to find, but so worth it! Menu was fascinating - it was everything chicken ( a couple of fish dishes)!! Menu is very well versed and then the food - AWESOME!!! Aromas were on the subtle side, BUT the taste and flavours were so delicately delicious! Everything served was well presented and so good!! Desert was to die for! Excellent service!! Such a great experience! We were so lucky to get a reservation!

Fantastic dinner. I was looking forward to this for a while. Still not quite as good as Paris, but delicious nonetheless. Would absolutely come back again.

Came here for brunch and was very impressed with all the brunch dishes featuring eggs and/or chicken. They’re certainly very creative with their menus when it comes to featuring the bird! We tried all the entrees and a few of the starters. Everything was done well, but nothing really wowed me. For example the Benedict with duck was good, but didn’t quite hit the spot as much as a traditional Benedict done well.

We went here for lunch on the last Friday of restaurant week to try out their cuisine. The restaurant has a huge bar at the entrance where you see chickens being spit roasted and chefs cooking behind the bar as well. There was more seating at the back and another seating section around the other side, arranged like a long thin U-shape. We sat in the back part, just in front of the cute feather artworks. We plumped for the 3-course restaurant menu (which is pretty much their standard prix fixe menu), starting with the chilled green pea and mint soup for myself and the deviled eggs for my husband. Both were good appetizers. We both then had the Brune Landaise (120 days) Chicken for the main, which was very nicely done chicken, as expected as that's what the restaurant specialises in. For the dessert we had the L’ile Flottante, a different take to what I've had previously. Past iterations have been a massive dollop of meringue swimming in a pool of creme anglaise. This was a much more refined version with a smaller dome that was nice and crunchy on the outside. It was a yummy riff on the normal version and I actually preferred it over the standard recipe. The staff were pleasant and attentive, the noise levels were fine, but the restaurant wasn't very full so don't know what it would be like when more people are there.

Relaxed, yet clean and precise atmosphere, even sitting and watch the chefs work at the bar. Food was very good, maybe a notch down from my expectations, yet excellent all the same. I went simple on this night, and it was exactly what I was hoping for, a perfectly roasted 1/4 chicken with fricacce vegetables. Light yet satisfying. A tad expensive, but atmosphere and quality are high. Recommended.

Totally wholesome positive experience. Chef Antoine Westermann is one of the French star chefs whose illustrious career spans several decades. We won't be able to list here all the awards, recognitions, and accolades that star-studded Chef Westermann's conquering pathway in the French gastronomy, from his first restaurant Le Buerehiesel in Strasbourg (3 Michelin stars throughout the years), to his Lisbon Michelin restaurant Fortaleza do Guincho and to the legendary Parisian cultural and culinary institution restaurant Drouant, an inherent part of the French literary tradition (site of the monthly dinners of Académie Goncourt, think Marcel Proust among other French luminaries). How lucky we are that Chef Westermann changed his focus and not just opened an outstanding restaurant in Manhattan, in the Flatiron district, but turned it into a true haven for those looking for uber-delicious food prepared from absolutely the best ingredients, featuring mostly poultry dishes, thus making your meal there not just a fully delectable gastro experience but a healthy alternative at that, emphasizing animal welfare and responsible farming. Of course, you can still get at Coq Rico such French classics as CÔTE DE BOEUF, RACK OF LAMB, PRIME AGED BEEF SIRLOIN, along fish or seafood dishes, but that's not what makes Le Coq Rico special. The restaurant's specialty are poached and roasted chicken, duck, and guinea fowl, each of which raised by selected growers, masterfully cooked and attractively plated. All chicken, duck, and egg specialties we got to sample were undoubtedly the best ones, that's right the best prepared poultry dishes we have ever tried in our endless gastro peregrinations. And Chef Westermann's current approach is to present a down-to-earth food, a food which is glorified by French tradition, a food which is mouthwatering, avoiding too complicated and too thought-over modern trends and vogues, and serving it in a cozy environment where you feel like a much welcomed guest, without condescending attitude of many celebrity chefs running their restaurants in a way where a diner is supposed to feel privileged and humbled by being accorded a hefty "favor" of pocketing out over $900 for a dinner for 2. Le Coq Rico is, on the other hand, more than affordable. The wines and beverages are divided into those featured on the main menu and those detailed in a wine list. The wine cellar seen from the dining area is more than exhaustive. The wines featured on the main menu are all affordable, withy most of them in the low $60s. The appetizers are numerous, both the egg specialities (DEVILED EGGS, POACHED EGG & ESCARGOT, or COQ RICO SALAD ), the terrines (TERRINE EN CROÛTE OF DUCK FOIE GRA, SEARED DUCK FOIE, or DUCK RILLETTES), and the "regular" appetizers (LEEK VINAIGRETTE, ASPARAGUS SALAD, SOUFFLÉ AU FROMAGE or SOUFFLÉ AUX CHAMPIGNONS). The main courses could be had as "Les Plats" or whole birds, and even though the whole birds can run you about $50 pp on the average, it is guaranteed to feed a family for 2 for another 3 days, at least. The service is convivial, friendly, respectful (Luca, the Toulouse native, did the tremendous job, chapeau bas!); the interior reminiscent of a farmhouse, adorned with chicken feather accents, is inviting and very cozy. Again, a totally awesome place. We can't wait to dine there again. And again.

Our third visit to this French transplant restaurant in New York was pretty amazing as were the other two times. From what I understand there's been a management shift in the restaurant but the food is still as good. We had dinner on Thanksgiving evening and they served a fixed menu that included turkey and all the great side dishes. The service, and food was Top Notch. Our only disappointment really was that there was no time to enjoy any course since the entire meal was rushed. We couldn't finish our champagne before the first course had arrived and we had just barely started drinking our wine. My wife had to shuffle the main course and her appetizer because the main course was ready when she was just halfway through her appetizer. This was the major let down of the the evening. Even though this happened, I'm sure they'll fix this I look forward to a return trip in the future.

First discovered this restaurant in Paris and was so excited to learn a new location opened in NYC. If you appreciate chicken/poultry, this is the place for you. Deliciously prepared birds and chicken with a modern twist. Highly recommend.

It lives up to its name. The place to have a great chicken meal. I went there for brunch and had the chicken and mushroom sausage that came with perfectly fried and crunchy potatoes with a generous sprinkle of well sautéed garlic. A bed of salad came with it but I find it a bit too sour for my taste. My partner enjoyed it tremendously though so it didn’t go to any waste. She had the chicken salad burger and she felt she just ate a really clean cut spring burger. U don’t feel like you are chomping into a dry chicken breast with a twang of chicken meat smell. The meal is closed with the chocolate profiteroles- four perfectly puffs that hugged either chocolate ice cream or cream. I ate my meal so eagerly that I only took a picture of the dessert.

Le Coq Rico has a difficult job of selling a $100 rotisserie chicken. I very much respect the endeavor to enshrine chicken meat as much as, say, beef has been in Western culture. They select Lancaster chickens and rotisserie them and then serve it with a strong jus. The chicken is good, and homey, but it also feels technically unimpressive.

Chickens are all the rave; and they are by far superb. But also take notice of the beautiful design of the space, especially the eggs in the bathroom. The dessert was also amazing! Must go.