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I usually come home from the city to the suburbs and wonder why I went there. The Mark felt like a night in NY should feel. Wonderful food, beautiful decor, atmosphere and the Mark Hotel is so Beautiful. I will recommend it to all my friends, what a find.

Was invited at the Mark by my boyfriend at my recommendation. I am a foody and always love to discover new places in the city. The service at the Mark was inattentive and impersonal & the waiters clueless . I was expected a fine dining experience and ended spending the night in a diner. Judging by the poor quality of food & the lack of service. Nothing really was innovative about the menu. Our fish was too cooked and the side dishes like the chewy, flavorless shitake mushrooms were unappetizing. Disappointing food, poor service although good sommelier & hostesses = still not enough for me to go back. There are plenty of great restaurants in the neighborhood that would offer a much better value for money.

I planned to stay one week in NY and The Mark was certainly the best restaurant in terms of food quality, taste and presentation i tried. I really suggest it both for a beautiful friends dinner or just for a romance dinner. excellent!

service was indifferent and really poor. no one seemed to have been through any kind of training. eggs came cold. second plate of eggs were excellent, but now the potatoes were cold. i miss the old mark hotel restaurant. the wait staff was superb, the food was excellent. it was always such a treat. will not chance a return visit.

Pretty lounge area up front with painfully clueless service, seated at unbussed dirty tables, waitress unaware of what's on the shelf. Eventually settle into a lovely well lit dining room to a great corner table. Then......neglect. Servers were absent. Food dropped but then never checked up on. Eventually a delicious melon salad, served crisp and cold is finished and a god awful sour lemon fettucini arrives. One bite max, inedible. Waiter is finally summoned (like hailing a cab in the rain in midtown during rush hour) and graciously swaps it out for decent substitute pasta served with cloying, overly citrus sea bass. Food dropped and forgotten. Dessert, chocolate cake, was outstanding. Pastry chef must actually be on site whereas the rest is surely "phoned in". Prices seem fair on menu but they kill you on the drinks; sour sancerre for 16 bucks a glass. Suggest, keeping it simple or just having a drink in the lounge, especially if you're into cougars.

Should have predicted the disaster when our party of 5 was shoved into a table for 4 and told that they only had two tables for "larger parties." Then, the food. The "Crispy Calamari" appetizer tasted as though it had been boiled first and then densely coated and fried. The coating included a mysterious green something which taste could not be identified. The crab cake appetizer sat on top of an avocado which was submerged in a "soup" of grapefruit, which totally negated the crab cake. The entrees did not fare any better. The miniscule serving of the entre Alsacien Tart was served freezing cold right out of the refrigerator and when advised that it should be room temperature, the waiter launched into a diatribe on how it should be served, i.e. cold. The Veal Milanese was cooked by someone who never experienced this dish. It was so heavily coated that the coating was falling off the tough overcooked veal underneath. One kudo were the desserts. Clearly the pastry chef is on the property. The service was amateurish, slow. The best service was from the polite and professional busmen. Isn't that something?

Had brunch at the Mark today. It was very pleasant and the service excellent. Food was very good and the prices are reasonable. Will return!