163 first avenue
btwn 10th + 11th street
new york, ny
Website: http://momofuku.com/new-york/ko/
momofuku ko opened march 2008
with 12 seats, momofuku ko is the smallest of the momofuku restaurants.
reservations must be made in advance on website.
at ko (which means “son of”), guests sit along a kitchen counter and are served by the cooks; due to the size and intimacy of the space, ko only accommodates parties of 1, 2 or 4 diners.
dinner is a set tasting menu devised by the chef and his aides de camp, and it is usually about 10 courses long; at lunch the menu stretches out to 16 courses.
ko has two michelin stars, which it has retained for six years.
ko is #93 on the san pellegrino world’s best restaurants list.
there is no dress code at ko.
lunch tasting menu $175 per person
dinner tasting menu $125 per person
corkage $45