Ardesia

Wonderful service, great atmosphere. Small plates were great to share, unique and delicious.

Great wine bar hidden away on the west side. The ambience is comfortable and warm and a perfect date spot. We ordered the beet salad with goat cheese and the pretzels, which were delicious. Though a wine bar, the place also serves creative cocktails. The place is packed on the weekends but we arrived at 7pm on a Friday and were seated right away. Close to home so can’t wait to go back!

Love this place. Our server selected 4 delicious cheeses (2 hard & 2soft) for us. I had the house Rosé and it was good. We ate the Beet salad, garlic skewers, roasted cauliflower and s’mores for dessert. Every bite was tasty. The service was very attentive. Very clean bathroom. I will definitely be back soon.

Big fan of Ardesia. I wish they had just a *few* more food options on their menu or that they changed things up sometimes, but it certainly doesn’t keep me from going back. Great deviled eggs and cheese selections.
You can’t beat their patio in the summer. Far enough west that you’re away from the tourists, but still accessible, and without the cramped feeling of Cassellula.
Service can occasionally be a little slow, but they also handled our large-​ish party for a birthday there very well. Always friendly and knowledgable.

Such a great place! The energy is great, low key, good people, good ambiance and setting for friends or dates. Good wine, but for a wine bar they could have more choices. Service is good. The small plates are good! Not a bad place.

Not sure how this place can be considered a date spot. When I think date spot, I think cozy, intimate, and maybe some lounge music in the background but relatively quiet so you can hear what the other person is trying to say. I went here on a Thursday night with a friend (not a date) so we could have a normal conversation over food and wine, and I could not, for the life of me, hear what she was saying half the time. At some point, we were shouting and sitting right next to each other. The music is LOUD and sounded like the Billboard’s Top 100 playlist. Ordered ricotta crostinis, artichoke dip and a shrimp kebab as snacks. The food was bland with small portions and super expensive. Maybe I just went on a off-​day but this place seems like it’s for your recently graduated post-​college crowd trying to be fancy.

Was brought here on a first date and we both really enjoyed the place. Great drinks, great food and great ambiance. Definitely a great date spot!
We went with most of the different small plates that were most popular on Unilocal.Deviled eggs with jalapenos, quail egg toast, shrimp skewers…
All pretty yummy and I love how it didn’t come out all at once. He got beer and I had wine which were pretty good as well. Good selections of both for whatever your palette is!
Great date spot. Enjoy!

My husband and I found Ardesia on Unilocal when looking for someplace to have a light bite before a concert at Terminal 5.
It was early on a Sunday, so the place wasn’t crowded and we were able to sit outside which was lovely — the restaurant is on a nice quiet street so sitting outside was very pleasant. Inside looked nice too, but was empty when we were there.
I admit, for a wine bar, I wasn’t super impressed with the wine list — I ordered a Pinot Noir, and my husband had the Tempranillo. Both were only ok.
The food, however, was very good. We ordered Ricotta Crostini — they were nicely seasoned, very light, and very nice. Pretzels — also very good. And burrata with bacon bourbon jam that was just amazing.
Overall, Ardesia served up exactly what we were looking for and we were very pleased.

This review is based purely on the drink I ordered, a Moscow Mule, which did not taste nor look like a Moscow Mule. I’m sure the food is good but we came late for drinks.

Went to Ardesia last night with my husband and another couple. We sat outside, and it was a beautiful night. We were very impressed! It began with great service from Daniel. He was attentive and had great wine recommendations for us. He answered any questions we had with a smile and he was on top of everything.
We ate and drank plenty. I recommend the Alborino to those liking an elegant white. It’s like a sauv blanc without the tartness. I think I love Alborino, this is the 3^rd one I’ve tried lately. We then switched to a bottle of Chardonnay, which was very nice. It has some oak, so if you don’t like oak, maybe steer clear, but the oak was not overwhelming. It was a good, balanced wine. A couple in our group were drinking the Syrah. It was from Europe, so they said it was lighter than the Syrah’s here, but they enjoyed it so they ordered a bottle.
The small plates were really good. We liked the burratta so much, we ordered another one almost immediately! There was a hard cheese that Daniel recommended that he said would be the closest thing to a parmesan, and let me tell you, my cousin and I said we could eat a block of that delicious cheese. I wish I remembered the name of it. Ask Daniel!
Then, that amazing pretzel came out with two dipping sauces. The table also had steak skewers, shrimp skewers and deviled eggs. I love eggs, but deviled eggs always kind of grossed me out, but these were delicious. I didn’t try the shrimp and the piece of steak I had was a little tough.
Anyway, we will be back to enjoy this cute place. Thanks for a great night!

I considered an extra star for atmosphere, because I loved both the service and the overall feel of the place – rootsy music and a choice of beautiful indoor or outdoor spaces.
the food, unfortunately, fell completely flat, alternately too salty and too bland. I had a summer salad, some crostinis, and a cheese plate. none impressed. my friend had a meat plate and wasn’t impressed, either. the crostini are essentially just bread and cream cheese, and the bean sprouts in the salad were salted way too heavily.
The best thing I had was the cheese plate. the cheese itself was really good. unfortunately their signature bread was nearly inedible so I could’ve saved myself the time and bought cheese at the grocery store. I’m honestly baffled by the good reviews. I really wanted to like this place!

Came here for a fabulous birthday dinner last night! Note to self: This isn’t traditional Spanish tapas but rather that all their dishes are small plates. Nonetheless, the food and drinks were definitely one of the best tapas in NYC I’ve had so far. The restaurant handled a big group (about 20 – 25 people) pretty well. Other than the champagne and drinks that were flowing, we ordered multiple orders of the deviled eggs (with pickled jalapeño and pork rind), ricotta crostini, garlic shrimp skewers, burrata (with bacon-​bourbon jam), beet salad (with fresh goat cheese, citrus, walnuts, and vinaigrette), arugula salad (with Pecorino Romano and lemon vinaigrette) and seared flank steak with salsa verde. Everything was pretty amazing. But the standouts of the night were the garlic shrimp skewers, flank steak, and my personal favorite, the burrata. Oh my G! Words cannot even describe the burrata. I think if given the option, I could just eat the burrata over and over again.
Overall, highly recommended for a date night or night out with friends!

Had a fantastic lunch and wine pairing!
I recommend dining outside and having a glass of the wine from the finger lakes!
Can’t wait to go back.

My quest to find all the great small plates restaurants in the world is now one restaurant closer to being completed, and this is not just another check on the list, it is definitely a jewel to which I will return again and again! The setting is beautiful and fun, the drinks are varied and probably all delicious, and the service is calm and friendly. Even with all of these great attributes, what is truly remarkable about this place is the food. I’ve been having dreams about it for the past two days since I ate there, and yesterday my mouth started watering as I walked past!
The small plates here are truly small plates. They are perfect if you just want a snack, but they also work well for dinner.
We started off with the soft pretzels, which were incredible. A dressed-​up take on the typical New York street food, these pretzels are a little smaller than what you normally find-​with an outer layer that is perfectly crispy and a soft, doughy inside-​and they’re accompanied by dijon and a killer house-​made cheese sauce (don’t worry about what it’s doing to your arteries: it must be healthy for you if you’re eating it at a chic/​hipster wine bar, right?).
After the pretzels came some delicious sugar snap peas with some sort of a zesty ricotta/​lemon festival on top. Along with the peas came a plate of asparagus with balsamic glaze and fried egg. These plates were both delightful and combined some wonderful spring flavors.
My boyfriend and I had almost forgotten that we had ordered one more plate, and like anyone who knows they’re the real star of the party, the Pulled Pork Sliders showed up last. Now, pulled pork is really a great food; I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad pulled pork dish. But just as it is really hard to mess up, I think it’s equally hard to make it truly exceptional. These sliders were truly exceptional. The plate came with two sliders, which were about two to three inches in diamiter. The buns were light and fluffy, with just a little bit of garlic butter brushed on them as they were toasted, and the pulled pork inside was unbelievable. Tangy, spicy, sweet, juicy, and delicious. It was a really perfect end to the meal. I wanted to keep the flavor in my mouth so much that I passed on dessert!
All-​in-​all the bill came to $ 65 for two people (including one drink each) before the tip. Not exactly cheap, but a great price for a nice date!

Went right at 5pm with a large group of 15. The restaurant wasn’t busy but the server was annoyed that we were a large group. «Sorry we are making you work?!» She made it clear she didn’t want to deal with us. Even though we were all in our 30s, respectable, professionals here on a business trip.
We planned to have dinner there, since the Unilocal reviews were so great, but ended up just getting a round of drinks and going to Totto Ramen just a block away for dinner. The server didn’t want to deal with us and we didn’t want to deal with her attitude.

Came here for Valentine’s Day dinner with the bf. Lovely ambience, really perfect for date night or a girls night out! One side of the restaurant isa bar, with a chalkboard wall and the wine menu handwritten which was a cute touch. The seating had couches along the perimeter of the room, giving it a lounge-​like feel.
The food itself was delicious! I had been wanting to try burrata for the longest time, and was super excited to see it on the menu. It was my favorite out of everything we ordered — the texture was rich and creamy, yet was light in flavor. It also came with this caramelized onion (?) spread that was sooo good mixed with the cheese.
The quail egg toast was really yummy! I think the bacon really made it though — typical. Only gripe is that it came with 2 pieces of toast, each only about 3-​bites big.
Lastly we ordered the pulled pork sliders. The meat was tender and flavorful, but these were pretty standard. The saltiness was a bit too overpowering as well. I loved the tiny potato chips that came with it though!
Overall, Ardesia is a really nice place to share some tasty small plates before heading out for a night on the town. It is a little far from the subway and the prices are steep for the amount of food you get. I would give this place 3.5 stars, but I’m rounding it up because the atmosphere was great and I had a good time there!

This isn’t a tapas bar in the literal sense; the menu isn’t particularly Spanish, but instead specializes in little plates with varied styles of food. There’s a good selection of cheeses and charcuterie, but also sliders, pretzels and other nibbles. The bartender was quick with recommendations and honest assessments of the menu. He described the evening’s special, a chicken liver mousse, as «intense and iron-​y,» which freaked out my friend but sounded delicious to me. And it was!
The wine selection is also good, but more limited if you drink by the glass instead of by the bottle.
The décor in the restaurant is comfortable, yet chic. I met friends and we sat at the bar, but there ate also plenty of tables with plush cushions. It seems like a great place for a date or a catch-​up night with friends.

I met up with an old coworker of mine here for a little catch up over wine and cheese. I’ve seen this place pop up on Unilocal before but it’s just a little too out of my way. If you live in the neighborhood though then this is a great spot for you. They have happy hour specials, a great wine selection, good food, and there is outdoor seating during warm weather.
We shared a few things including the burrata and roasted cauliflowers. The cauliflowers took me by surprise. I mean, really, they are the most unassuming vegetable and nobody ever loves cauliflowers. But these were so yummy I was inspired to make my own version at home. All in all we had a good time and I’ll keep this place in mind if I’m in that area again.

This place is just so cute! I didn’t try the dinner but I stopped and hung out in their patio area for some nice wine. The server was very professional, almost where it was a fine line between professional and snobby.
The terrace area was gorgeous, the décor was gorgeous. I came here with another person, and unfortunately sat next to 4 girls with the worst fashion conversation imaginable (NYFW). We tried to drink the wine as fast as we could and void out the noise that was coming out of their mouths. But I would totally come here again lol.

Lovely tapas & wine bar on the outskirts of Hell’s Kitchen– great place to get away from the noise of 9^th Avenue.
Pros:
* Outdoor seating perfect for a pleasant summer/​fall evening
* Delicious elegant dishes made w/​fresh ingredients: We loved the Beet Salad, Deviled Eggs, Garlic Shrimp Skewer and Lamb Skewer.
* Wide selection of wines– enjoyed my glass of Refosco Channing Daughters Rose– light, dry and tasty
* Fast and excellent service
In total spent $ 32.35 for a glass of Rose with 4 shared small plates. Sadly I was still pretty hungry after the meal. Unfortunately tapas in NYC are just incredibly pricey, so I wish they offer a Happy Hour menu.