Hotel Chelsea: Teruko NYC

The address is 222 West 23rd Street, at Hotel Chelsea.1

Teruko NYC brings sushi and the robata grill beneath Hotel Chelsea. For lunch, choose Café Chelsea in the same hotel.

Updated 29 October 20263 min readHow we write the guide

What Teruko is

Tadashi Ono leads the kitchen, while Hideaki Watanabe oversees Edomae-style sushi.¹

The name comes from Teruko Yokoi, the Japanese artist who lived and worked at the hotel. Her original paintings hang in the restaurant.²

There is housemade tofu with shiso-scallion sauce for $18, or a $21 vegetable roll with chayote, cucumber, plum, shiitake, avocado and okra.²

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For a group	A full buyout holds 100 seated or standing guests; a partial buyout accommodates 40 seated.¹
The backbar	The backbar came from the Orchid Bar at Tokyo’s Hotel Okura, salvaged before its renovation.¹

Hot dish	What comes with it	Price
Berkshire Pork Katsu	Breaded loin, mustard tonkatsu sauce	$35
Shake Kamameshi	Salmon pot rice, salmon roe and shiso	$48
Oyako Tsukune	Chicken meatball, yakitori sauce and egg yolk	$24

I would go for a dinner of several small orders: the menu moves from cold starters to meat and fish, so you can range beyond sushi.²

Torotororo combines fatty tuna tartare, mountain potato and crispy rice for $38; osetra caviar adds $20.²

Antique limestone floors, salvaged wood walls and panels of indigo-dyed denim.¹

The address is 222 West 23rd Street, at Hotel Chelsea.¹

Nigiri and sashimi are priced per piece. Tuna Sankan brings 3 cuts of bluefin tuna for $45; Premium Gokan is a selection of 5 kinds of fish for $75.²

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