Craft

• Cuisine(s): American
  Hours: Mon-Fri 11:30am-2:30pm, Mon-Sat 5pm-10pm
  Price: $$$$
• Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards
  Features: Patio/Sidewalk Dining, Private Party, Family Style, Business Dining
  Serving: Dinner, Lunch
• Alcohol: Full bar
  Reservations: Accepted, Highly Recommended
  Parking: Lot Available, Valet, Validation Available

Description

When chef Tom Colicchio's original Craft opened in Manhattan's Gramercy Park neighborhood, it was a fantasy restaurant, a place where customers were invited to construct their meals from scratch, or rather from gleaming copper pots of prepared meats, sauces, starches and vegetables all ordered à la carte. At Craft in Century City, in a handsome neo-Neutra space a few yards from both ICM and CAA, it is a veritable festival of à la carte à gogo: high-quality slabs of wagyu beef, local, seasonal sea bass wrapped in, roast Heritage pork laminated with sorrel leaves and braised Alaskan sablefish that you are invited to pair with sautéed long beans or baby turnips, creamed Tuscan kale or smoky, beautifully roasted wild mushrooms, braised peewee potatoes or squash risotto. By the time you have crowded your table with all the side dishes you want to taste and ordered a modest wine, you have probably spent $100 a person - and bumped into the likes of James Caan, S. Irene Virbila, Suzanne Tracht and Mayor Villaraigosa, to name just a few of the people crowded into the restaurant on a Thursday night.