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Arrival: Departure: Category: All Activities Auditions Awards Shows/Banquets Cabaret Charity Events Comedy Cultural Arts Film Food and Drink Fun for Kids Galleries Holiday Celebrations Lectures/Debates Literary Marathon Museums Music Nature/Outdoors Parades Scavenger Hunts Shopping Signings/Appearances Sports Street Fairs Theater Tours Trade Shows   FEATURED LISTINGS Angelo's Pizza· You haven't tasted pizza until you've tried their coal-oven ... Bangkok House· Thai food to die for at reasonable prices in a casual, attra... Lucille's Bar & Grill at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill· One of New York's newest and most exciting nightclubs with l... Bice Ristorante· A sumptuous combination of traditional and new trends in Ita... Bill's Gay Nineties· Affordable food at a former speakeasy with turn-of-the-centu... "Some people that come here just sit and look at their food for five minutes before eating.” So said the owner of Breeze, a slick, sophisticated, seven-month-old Thai/French fusion restaurant in the Theatre District. Her name, Mayurachat Charyapitukkul, is perhaps the longest of any Manhattan restaurateur. And she knows what she’s talking about: The food at Breeze delights the eye as much as the tongue. The modern surroundings captivate as well. Breeze is a sparkling storefront with a long, back-lighted bar and a bouquet of calla lilies at its end. Shimmering candles sit on each of the room’s otherwise bare tables. Salmon colored walls, an open kitchen, two huge television screens, and menus pressed into 45 rpm records complete Breeze’s au currant good looks. Exotic drinks arrive in graceful glasses with curved stems and stylish triangular, oblong, and square dishes, some curved upward at their points, hold artfully presented food. A crab-and-mango summer roll, an agreeable fusion of fruit and fish, turns out to be six multicolored, upright sushi-like cylinders on a snappy squiggle of lemon emulsion. Most dishes feature Thai food and French cooking techniques, but are more Thai than French. A few, like a warm salad of duck confit and lightly wilted frisee, tilt more toward France. Its shredded-duck confit is an appropriate counterpoint to the frisee, croutons, and onions dressed in spicy anise vinaigrette. Highly spiced, crisp Thai noodle sausages passed muster, and best of all were four fried mushroom dumplings—crisp outside with a savory minced interior. Among the imaginatively presented entrées sampled were four seared citrus-crusted diver scallops perched on an interesting bed of curried coconut, creamed spinach, and jasmine juice. A French hybrid of fat-fringed duck breast, pan-seared with ginger, tamarind, garlic, and Chinese broccoli is fanned out on a plate and accompanied by butternut squash dumplings. Beef basil fried rice looks like a rice pillbox but is layered with beef, egg, peppers, basil, and vegetables. Hot ocean is a straight-forward seafood and vegetable casserole, thick with sautéed shrimp, squid, and scallops in a lemongrass-driven sauce. Desserts are far prettier than the same sweets seen elsewhere. Think red bean ice cream, fried banana, fried ice cream, and chocolate molten cake. 661 Ninth Ave. btw. 45th & 46th Sts., 212-262-7777. FEATURED LISTINGS Angelo's Pizza· You haven't tasted pizza until you've tried their coal-oven ... Bangkok House· Thai food to die for at reasonable prices in a casual, attra... Lucille's Bar & Grill at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill· One of New York's newest and most exciting nightclubs with l... Bice Ristorante· A sumptuous combination of traditional and new trends in Ita... Bill's Gay Nineties· Affordable food at a former speakeasy with turn-of-the-centu... Archives: New York City Dining - Authentic Greek, Italian & Japanese Favorites Downtown Dining - Great Restaurants Below 14th Street Victor’s Cafe: Traditional & Creative Cuban Cuisine New York City Dining - Simply Sensational Dishes at Simply Pasta New York City Dining - Mars 2112 New York City Dining - The Capital Grille New York City Dining - Darbar Indian Restaurant David Burke's New York City Restaurants Celebrate National Lemonade Day on Friday, August 20th New York City Dining - Transcendental Indian, Great Steaks, Late-Night Noshes & More Benjamin Steakhouse in New York City Is Seeing Stars! Lychee House: Fresh Spins on Oriental Favorites Summer Specials at Bangkok House in New York City's Times Square Patsy's Italian Restaurant Presents 'Swingin' Italiano' Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 Cuisine Corner - Cuban Cooking, Dining on the Water & More Salute! - Sophisticated Italian on the East Side

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