My spouse and I visited
Legacy Records for brunch on a Sunday in mid-February 2020. Legacy Records is
open daily for dinner and for brunch on the weekends. Guests can book a table
using the online RESY reservation system.
Legacy Records opened in
March 2018 on West 38th Street near 10th Avenue in the
Midtown South/Hell’s Kitchen/Hudson Yards neighborhood near the Jacob K. Javits
Convention Center. It occupies the street level of the Henry Hall Apartments. The
Delicious Hospitality Group owns Legacy Records and also operates neighbors
Parcelle, Ada’s Place, and Easy Victor Café (in the same building), as well as
Charlie Bird in SoHo and Pasquale Jones in NoLita.
The L-shaped restaurant
space offers a lounge/bar area upon entry as well as a coffee corner. The main
dining room occupies the rear of the space, with stand-alone tables in various
sizes and configurations, a few booths, and some more private tables that share
two banquettes in two sort of recessed pockets in the dining room. Large
windows open onto a narrow strip of outdoor space. High ceilings, cloth
wallcoverings, leather tabletops, metallic finishes, and pops of green color
complete the décor. The restaurant’s name comes from a recording studio that
once stood on the same site, and accompanying music reminds diners of that fact.
We shared two appetizers:
the beet salad (red and golden beets and something else incredibly tasty that
we could not quite place, perhaps a Japanese yam?) and the duck sausage (two
homemade patties nicely grilled and topped with a piece of crispy sage [this
item is listed as a side dish on the menu]). We loved that the beet salad
contained mostly beets, whereas so many other restaurants use mostly greens
with just a few small slices of beets. As our main dishes, we ordered the
tonarelli cacio y pepe (pasta with a pecorino and peppercorn sauce; this dish
was a bit undersized) and the fried chicken (which is listed on the menu as a
side dish, albeit a very hearty and entrée-priced side dish; alternatively, you
can order the fried chicken as a sandwich). Disappointingly, the only dessert
offered was three flavors of ice cream (we passed). The food was delicious and the
service was excellent.
We enjoyed our brunch at
Legacy Records; the food, service, and atmosphere made for a pleasant
experience.
