{"version":"1.0","type":"card","id":"83c922a3-e6e5-49f6-a7fa-179c9be71985","url":"https://stacklist.com/card/83c922a3-e6e5-49f6-a7fa-179c9be71985","title":"Ikigai | NYC","source_url":"https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ikigai/@40.6873937,-73.9748979,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25b007127847d:0x3045d06b6da2aadf!8m2!3d40.6873937!4d-73.9748979!16s%2Fg%2F11w4h0_bz_?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDczMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D","note":"A not-for-profit tasting counter that's the kind of place where you notice the small details.\n\nThis excerpt from a Conde Nast article:\nUshered through an unremarkable below-ground door, we walked past a chef’s counter, and into a courtyard styled like a Japanese tearoom, complete with shoji screens and potted Japanese maple. Seated, we received a cold towel (one of the kindest acts on an NYC summer day) and a cup of rhododendron kombucha—followed by a course of pillowy milk bread. \n\nIkigai isn’t afraid to do things a little differently. The owner Dan Soha is a first-time restaurant owner; the kaiseki tasting menu, courtesy of Rafal Maslankiewicz (ex-Masa and -Eleven Madison Park) carries Polish influences; and Ikigai will be run as a not-for-profit enterprise with any profits going to Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, an organization that redistributes food waste to food-insecure communities.\n\nOn the night we visited, Maslankiewicz’s menu included an okra risotto with sea beans and a quail-egg-in-a-hole topped by uni. But nowhere was the hybridization more evident, and less expected, than during dessert—a delicious knedle-mochi dumpling with raspberry and sour cream.\n\nThe plating (and service) here is unfussy, so don’t come expecting lavishness—the price tag at $165 a head occupies a more sensible middle ground, too. \n\nDo expect a tight wine pairing; although you can go off-piste and get your bevvies à la carte. I was thrilled to see Yamilé on the menu, a delightful non-alcoholic sparkling rosé made in Copenhagen. Ikigai is the kind of place where you notice the small details: the cool indie playlist, the under-the-table shelf for your purse, and most of all, the calm energy that sits around you.\n","image":{"url":"https://ucarecdn.com/e17d0717-3a0d-46e1-b8fa-9a2a6470ec50/-/crop/1364x1365/195,0/-/preview/","alt":"Ikigai | NYC","width":1200,"height":630},"stack":{"id":"a9eb9acb-4112-4f7e-8484-6b48471c07f7","title":"A New Yorker's Favorite Restaurants in NY","url":"https://stacklist.com/stack/a9eb9acb-4112-4f7e-8484-6b48471c07f7"},"created_at":"2025-08-02T15:31:33.201Z","updated_at":null,"aco":null,"_links":{"self":"/api/public/card/83c922a3-e6e5-49f6-a7fa-179c9be71985.json","html":"https://stacklist.com/card/83c922a3-e6e5-49f6-a7fa-179c9be71985","md":"/api/public/card/83c922a3-e6e5-49f6-a7fa-179c9be71985.md","stack_json":"/api/public/stack/a9eb9acb-4112-4f7e-8484-6b48471c07f7.json"}}