My wife and I went to Musket Room this past weekend to try their tasting menu. Overall it was good, but I feel like, for the price, you really aren’t getting a lot of food. Some of it was aggressively acidic as well, but that I didn’t mind so much. I was still hungry when I got home, and after a $500 meal, that should never be the case.

First course; sourdough bread with chicken butter (nice that they gave this to us on the house), red snapper tartare, oysters three ways (half shell, grilled and fried), and prawns.

Of these, the prawns were the big winners.

Next course; duck confit (this was dry), and crab congee.

The congee, while a bit more “whole grain” than porridge style, was delicious. It had crab and sunchokes in it.

Main course; venison and pork ($15 upcharge for the pork instead of the tilefish).

These were both excellent, with the pork being slightly more excellent than the venison. But two slices and three slices? Come on…

Dessert was nice. We had some complimentary French Amer (amaro).

The chocolate cloud with orange cream cake was just slightly less delicious than the sweet potato gratin with toasted ice cream.

There was also a little platter of cookies and things. Very nice.

I probably wouldn’t go back, but the food was indeed very good, as were the cocktails.

MUSKET ROOM
265 Elizabeth Street
New York, NY 10012