A Greek Escape In Downtown Manhattan: Inside Selene

Anyone who knows me knows that I can eat Greek food any night of the week and often do. The flavors are fresh, clean, and familiar, and the dishes are colorful and delicious without being a splurge.

Some Greek restaurants in New York, where I live, are spots, I can go to anytime, but enter Selene, the new kid on the block when it comed to elevated Greek cuisine, which makes for a transportive night out.

The SoHo eatery occupies a showstopping 10,000 square feet spread over three levels. I walked in and immediately said “Wow!.” Selene also has an expansive garden terrace with a bar that’s a biophilic dream replete with flowers and plants as well as a retractable-roof atrium that opens to the sky above- a nod to Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon…

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