Luxurious Living & Outstanding Personal Service

The Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery Park hotel offers a convenient location and contemporary interior design coupled with spacious luxury suites and unbeatable personal service.

Unlike typical New York hotels, which offer slow elevators that take you to a cramped room on the 44thfloor, The Ritz-Carlton offers 298 spacious guest rooms and 39 luxurious suites, ranging from 425 square feet up to 2,500 square feet.  The award-winning property features expansive windows and telescopes in each of the rooms with a Statue of Liberty view.

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We have been regular visitors at Ichiban Japanese Steakhouse for years, but were referred to try Koto Japanese Steakhouse. 

We enjoyed hibachi style dining at both Central New York restaurants.

The salad dressing at Koto was absolutely the best dressing I have ever tasted.  It is a homemade ginger dressing but tastes like it may have a touch of honey mustard in it.  It was a creamy mixture, unlike the more gritty ginger mixture at Ichiban.  If I could have licked the bowl without embarrasement, I would have.

Neither of the restaurants offered a swig of saki, which was disappointing.  A favorite hibachi grill in New Jersey is Teppan in Jersey City, and a favorite moment of the night is when our hibachi chef uses his water bottle to stream the saki into our mouths!

When visiting Ichiban, plan on at least a 2 hour dinner, from start to finish - including the tea that is delivered after your dinner show is complete.  Unfortunately, at Koto we felt rushed and had finished our total experience in less than one hour, with no tea served after dinner.

The restaurant and the bar at Ichiban are smaller than at Koto, but although they lack in square footage, they make up for it in friendly bartenders, great service and a cozy intimate and engaging environment.

Both restaurants were pleasant and deserve an excellent review for quality of food and presentation.  But if I were asked to choose one or the other, my vote would lie with Ichiban.  Mainly for the inviting atsmosphere, along with the dinner variety that includes
soup, salad and tea.  Though, it would be difficult to go without the salad dressing and the Malibu Dragon from Koto!

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