If you were an aficionado of the old Four Seasons restaurant—soon to reopen elsewhere but formerly in the Seagram Building in New York— you will see a huge difference in the space, which now houses two restaurants. It begins the moment you enter the white travertine lower lobby on 52nd Street, no longer spare. A host in a Tom Ford tuxedo greets you at a white-lacquered reception desk with an extravagant floral display and inquires which restaurant you have reserved: the Grill (formerly the Grill Room), serving chef Mario Carbone’s chophouse favorites; or the Pool (formerly the Pool Room), where you find chef Rich Torrisi’s seafood cuisine. These new establishments are the result of the building's new owner, New York developer Aby Rosen, with the Major Food Group Company (MFG); Carbone and Torrisi are also partners in the enterprise.
Another host accompanies you as you mount the existing bronze staircase to the restaurants and bar, past Cy Twombly and Franz Kline paintings (on loan from Rosen), stone benches, and ferns.
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