Lizzy Moore

Review of Rue 57

I booked a reservation for my husband and I a coup...

I booked a reservation for my husband and I a couple weeks before visiting NYC to celebrate our anniversary. In the reservation it asks if you are celebrating an occasion so I noted it would be our anniversary. When we arrived the hostess was very rude. Her facial expression and posture showed that she did not want to be there. She was wearing a very short jumper that didn't seem appropriate for the venue and she didn't even greet us. She took the menus and just walked away without a word for us to follow and show us our table. We noticed this same attitude or worse with other diners after us. The waiters were excellent but I am rating the service lower because of the awful hostess.
The food was good but very expensive. Even though I was asked in the reservation and noted an anniversary, there was no mention of it by the waiters or hostess. There is no obligation for the restaurant to do anything but I would expect that if asking during the reservation process was part of it, that the hostess or waiter should have made mention of it and thanked us for dining with them on a special occasion.
Overall, the atmosphere is good, food was okay but I wouldn't recommend it due to the prices and bad experience with the hostess.