I went to Koloman for dinner last week with two friends. The space is next to / in the Ace Hotel, in Flatiron. The restaurant is dimly lit and decently large. Nice ambiance, and the service was good. We tried the following dishes: Freshly Baked Bread (Poppy Seed Rolls, Sourdough Batard) (4.5/5): Excellent bread that came with housemade butter. Duck Liver Parfait (Kracher Gelee, Toasted Brioche) (4/5): A very nice duck liver parfait. Came with two pieces of brioche. I do think we could've been given more brioche to go with the pate, because it wasn't enough. Salade Composee (Market Greens, Radhies, Chervil, Crispy Bickwheat, Citrus Vinaigrette) (4/5): A simple but tasty salad. No complaints about it. Grilled Wild Mushrooms (Warm Bulgar Wheat Salad, Almonds, Red Pepper Coulis) (4.5/5): Very good mushrooms. Super rich and tasty. Amish Chicken (Savoy Cabbage, Salsify, Tortellini, Consomme) (4/5): A well-made chicken, tender, and went nicely with the accompaniments. Overall, I had a nice meal at Koloman. The food was all very good, and I would certainly return.

Came here last night for my birthday and had a spectacular time! The place is located in the ace hotel. It has a art deco-y feel to it. Not fancy or elegant but sophisticated. We started off with some drinks. I got the martini vert I'm guessing it's seasonal since it uses ramps. Delicious unique surprisingly floral and not overpowering. My friend got the bitter truth also really delicious but better towards the end when the flavors really mended together. Our appetizers were the gougeres (the reason I actually wanted to come here) the soufflé, kingfish, beef tartare, and salad. All were excellent highly highly recommend. The tartare was insane I've never really enjoyed tartare and this one changed my mind. Then the entrees we got were a risotto special, the schnitzel and the goulash. Definitely must try the schnitzel it's perfectly crisp and breaded well and the cranberry sauce was a perfect complement. For dessert the chocolate Verona soufflé is a must it comes with an insane cardamom ice cream. I'd honestly come back for that only. Service was incredible the waitress was so cute and the bartenders really know their stuff. Definitely wanna come back again for a nice brunch or lunch and even to just sit at the bar!! Really excellent place and had 0 complaints.

Wow. Some meals and restaurants just blow you away. I shared a dinner at Koloman with my friend a few weeks ago when we were visiting NYC, and it waws one of those meals, and it exceeded even my pretty high expectations (I learned that it had snagged the 37th spot on Pete Wells' 100 Best Restaurants in New York City in 2024 list just days after we made our reservation)! Where to start? The delicious, beautiful food? The great wine? The lovely service? The understated (not overly fussy or decorated space)? The food! We stated with their freshly baked bread service (poppy seed rolls, sourdough bâtard, and cultured butter). We were starving after a day of exploring, and it was a great start. Next, we shared the kingfish crudo (horseradish, spicy citrus, and smoked olive oil), which was a very different crudo than most that I've had, a light start to a meal that I knew would get heavier! Then? The Lucullus de Valenciennes (foie gras, smoked beef tongue, and black walnut vinagraitte), that was as luscious and rich as it was beautiful. Next, that cheese soufflé (pleasant ridge reserve, aged cheddar, and mushroom jam). How to explain how much I loved this course? I talk a lot. I basically never shut up. So if I'm eating and I get quiet, that's how you know I am just floored by how good something is. It's good that I don't even have any words. That's how good this soufflé was. And the meal just kept going! For our mains, we shared the Salmon en Croûte (scallop mousseline, sunchoke, and beetroot-beurre rouge) and the Goulasch (beef cheek, smoked paprika, caraway, buttered spätzle, and crispy onions). Both of these were absolute stunners - both in presentation and taste. I had to ask questions about the salmon because how on earth do they do THAT?! When a meal is this good, you don't even think about whether you're hungry - just go for dessert. We shared the palatschinken (fromage blanc, blood orange sorbet, and citrus). And never have I ever seen palatschinken (Austrian crepes) like this! It was light and small and absolutely the most unexpected, gorgeous presentation of crepes I have ever seen. Seriously, not a bite was off. Everything was absolutely delicious and gorgeous (without sacrificing an ounce of tastiness). We shared a bottle of wine - an Austrian Blaufränkisch, of course - which was a great accompaniment to our meal. (Their wine list is a book, so if wine with dinner is your thing, be prepared to make some hard choices! But what a good problem to have!) We also enjoyed two dessert cocktails with dessert - the Mayan Mocha (empirical ayyuk, banana, faccia brutto nocino, coffee, and bitters) and the Einspänner (alb vodka, mr. black coffee liqueur, pumpkin seed, kirsch, espresso, and sabayon) - both were wonderful. On top of the food and drink just be excellent, the service was top notch as well. Everyone who assisted us during our meal was so lovely and helpful. Our waiter was fantastic. We wanted everything on the whole menu, and he was extremely forthcoming in the best way when helping us make choices. The service really added to the experience. And - since this review is going long - I'll just say that I really enjoyed the space as well. It's beautiful without being over the top or leaning to the style over substance so common nowadays. The focus at Koloman is the food and drink, and nothing about our experience detracted from that! If I have one tiny complaint (but nothing could persuade me that our meal at Koloman was anything but five stars), it's that the bathroom is in the Ace Hotel (just a short walk away), but there just aren't enough bathrooms when the Ace lobby bar is full of people (is that all the time?). But seriously, that is the only remotely critical thing I have to say about what was a pretty perfect meal. My friend and I agreed that our dinner at Koloman was the best meal we'd both had so far in 2024 and one of the best meals we've had in the last few years. It was incredibly special, stunningly delicious, and lovely. One of the easiest five star reviews I've ever written.

Anything less than 5 stars for Koloman feels like an insult. This is for sure the best meal I've had this year. There was something really special about this French/Austrian, and turns out the chef from Batard, Markus Glocker opened this place in 2022. We were also pleasantly surprised because when we made the reservation hadn't didn't see the updated top 100 places to eat from Pete Wells, and Koloman was ranked 37th this year. This was our first dinner in NYC on this trip, and I think after walking around NYC with visits to museums and bookstores and Central Park, this dinner fit as our theme before our broadway show, Patriots (about Putin). I can't say I've had a lot of Austrian food, so this was special in that way, but the service here was the best I've had in what I consider a regular good restaurant. It's not Michelin, but the service is what I would expect at a Michelin. It was so thoughtful, and I swear every man in that restorations was gorgeous (I sound like an old lady). We got a bottle of Blaufränkisch, a slightly more tanic pinot noir like wine from Austria. What's also special about Koloman is the way the staff makes decisions for you, spacing out your meal and bringing you courses in what makes sense. We started with bread, because I love bread service and there was a poppy seed roll. Our order was mainly small plates and one entree, which I appreciated the staff coursing out for us: - Kingfish Crudo - we got at at the reco of the waiter, it was good but not memorabe - Lucullus de Valenciennes (foie gras, smoked beef tongue, truffle) - (I will never say no to foie gras and this dish was delicate and with finely cut radishes and truffle in the very Glocker style). I loved the little hits of pepper. - Cheese Soufflé - pleasant ridge reserve, aged cheddar, mushroom jam -- you know in Beauty and the Beast Lumiere asks Belle to eat the gray stuff, it's delicious? This mushroom jam is what I think Belle eats in that movie. It's SO GOOD. - Salmon en Croûte -- pickled cucumber, sunchoke, beetroot-beurre rouge -- this is THE signature dish here, a must get, and you will wonder how they prepared this dish. It's not puff pastry but bread that they cook like pastry in butter and the salmon is so perfectly medium rare and you want to be bathed in the beetroot-beurre. - Goulash beef cheek -- smoked paprika, caraway, buttered spätzle, crispy onions -- never had such delicate spätzle and the goulash was deep rich and paprika Then we ended the meal with dessert cocktails: Einspänner and All Nighter - coffee based drinks and the Palatschinken with a cheese and citrus sorbet. They also give you a complimentary chocolate coconut cookie. Epic meal, I do think they're discontinuing brunch service, but highly, highly recommend checking out in NYC. A note about the bathroom - it's awkward, you have to leave the restaurant and venture to the Ace Hotel restroom - and there's only two singular stalls so I had to wait a while. That's the only negative thing I'll say about the restaurant experience.

Lowkey spot for a nice meal, perfect for a date or hanging out with a friend. I really liked their cheese bread at the beginning (more than the souffle) and the fish sandwich was also so good, with a perfectly soft interior but crispy thin exterior. Service is pretty good and ambience is cute, though the bathroom is through a hotel lobby.

Brunch review. Just order it all. And if you can't order it all, get these: - Carrot Bread: Better than your grandma's - Roasted Beets "Linzer": A deconstructed beet linzer cookie, complete with pieces of candied orange and hazelnut crust to complement the sweetness of the pink and red beets. Why hasn't anyone thought to make a salad taste like a cookie? Genius. - Kernöl: Tasty "styrian-style" soft scrambled eggs with plenty of homemade baked bread to slather them on. - Goulash: As good was what I had in Hungary and savory enough to make me cry tears of joy. I could eat that buttered spätzle every day. - Viennese Apple Strudel: I generally don't care for apple desserts, but of course Koloman made me temporarily change course with its flaky, crusty, perfectly spiced pastry with rum raisins, toasted hazelnuts and frozen buttermilk. I spent a week in Vienna and don't know if I had any apple strudel there as good as this. We first experienced Koloman at an LA Times-hosted food festival. Among so many A-list restauranteurs, their offerings stood out as one of the best. Now that the restaurant has successfully passed my brunch test, I'll quite happily shell out more for dinner. Besides, it's good practice for when I jet off to Germany in a couple of months. Mmmm, endless spätzle....

TLDR: Replacing what was The Breslin is now Koloman. This is a very European restaurant. I've only been for lunch but for this level of dining, probably one of the better prefixe menus. I think the focaccia is worth it and for my selections, tartare, schnitzel and strudel. I went through a week of just eating a lot of fancy lunches solo. This day I hit up Koloman as I was curious about their prefixe for awhile. I added the warm pumpkin focaccia and yeah - that was tasty. Definitely rubbed in plenty of oil but it was nicely crispy on the outside but oh so fluffy on the inside. That butter was something else too. For the selections I started with the tartare. Typical french preparation, not too eggy or rich. Adequate acidity and very flavorful. Schnitzel. I wanted to like this a bit more but it was still good. The schnitzel coating was quite thin but maybe the way it was plated on top of each other - it kind of steamed out the coating and it just fell off. I liked the warm potato salad that accompanied it. I still am not a fan of lingonberry but I can appreciate it. Strudle. Very thin layers, tasty but maybe too much powdered sugar for my preference. Overall - I liked the food enough that Id' be back and maybe try some other things on the menu. Standout for me on this meal though? Focaccia, tartare.

Food: 4.2/5 Service: 4.3/5 Ambiance: 4.3/5 Koloman is in the Ace Hotel and is in the former Breslin space on 29th and Broadway. I went to try the restaurant week menu, so this review is solely for that. I cannot opine on the dinner menu, which looked like it had good stuff. That said, the country pate was delicious. The bread was lightly toasted and soft. The chicken schnitzel was good, the breading was thin, light, and crispy. Potatoes with lemon and butter were good. Viennese apple strudel was not bad. It was served warm but not hot so you don't have to wait to bite into it. Not enough rum in the rum raisins and the frozen buttermilk was ok but not quite my tempo. Too sour. Like yogurt. Service was very prompt and friendly and aware.

Came here for brunch. This place is absolutely beautiful! Gives off Gatsby vibes! Staff is also wonderful and friendly! Carrot cake - very very good. Super moist, warm, and flavorful! Palatschinken Crepes ($18) - nice hints of sweet and savory! Schnitzel ($43) - very very good! However maybe a little pricey for what it was? Short ribs - I thought this was very good and hearty!