Best Restaurant
Floto + Warner
Centovini, New York City
by Murray Moss
Clean-lined and unpretentious, Centovini is a modern take on the Italian wine bar—it combines a casual restaurant and bar with a smartly integrated adjacent wine shop, on view behind expansive plate glass. The interiors all make dazzling use of bottles and glasses as visual elements. Designed by Moss (center, with his business partners, Nicola Marzovilla and Franklin Getchell), whose namesake accessories shop is around the corner, the intimate restaurant features playful light fixtures and chandeliers, and every detail, from the bar stools to the silverware, is subtle and thoughtfully conceived.
"Centovini is a cogent and smart space, a complete design statement." —Rob Forbes
Honorable Mentions
Buddakan, New York City, by Christian Liaigre; Morimoto, New York City, by Tadao Ando; Mudam Café at the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, by Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec
Address Book
Buddakan
75 Ninth Ave., New York City; 212/989-6699; www.buddakannyc.com; dinner for two $150.
Centovini
25 W. Houston St., New York City; 212/219-2113; www.centovinibar.com; dinner for two $110.
Morimoto
88 10th Ave., New York City; 212/989-8883; www.morimotonyc.com; dinner for two $200.
Mudam Café at the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
3 Parc Dräi Eechelen, Luxembourg; 352-45/378-5970; www.mudam.lu; lunch for two $70.
