Má Pêche, David Chang’s orang-y breakfast and lunch boite located in the Chambers Hotel is a bi-level space with street-level bar and take-out bakery, and lower level dining room. It is very orange. This is Mr. Chang’s first venture above 14th street—he owns four other restaurants, all Momofuku clones—but this space is the sparest. A large X-shaped table fills the room surrounded by walls that are mostly bare—with one notable exception: “Bad Route,” a painting by Miguel Calderon, made famous by Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tennenbaums.
If you are not into French/Vietnamese fusion—oysters, crab, and scallops, pork ribs fried cauliflower, mussels, bún du riz (rice noodles, pork ragout, saw leaf herb), and short ribs with spaetzle, go anyway.
The painting is that weird.
Má Pêche 15 west 56th street. nyc 10019 | btwn 5th + 6th ave
Spencer Stewart