When I first went to write about the opening of The Baby Grand, I tried to catch it all. But I knew it was efflorescent. To what extent, I didn’t realize until I sat at the table for hours and devoured it — not just visually, but gastronomically, too.
This time, I indulged in the experience of Night Hawk, the hotel’s outdoor Mediterranean-inspired restaurant, one of two concepts at The Baby Grand alongside the more hidden speakeasy, Fallen Empire.
According to the website, Night Hawk takes its name from an Edward Hopper painting of a luminous diner on an empty street corner. But this restaurant is the complete contrast: not hollow and lonely like the painting, but extravagant and flamboyant…