Life Hotel New York in New York

If you want the chef to completely ignore your cooking instructions (for a hamburger mind you) this is the place to go because they gave me the best RAW hamburger I've ever had. I asked for it cooked medium and when I bit into I promise I heard it moo. To be fair, even though it was not cooked to the point where I wanted it, the burger was seasoned to perfection and the burger presentation was what you would expect form an high quality artesian burger restaurant. Incidentally the price of the burger reflects the quality in presentation and seasoning, it's like $18, but the fries were spectacular so that almost justified the high price. Also if fries are what you are into I'm recommending going to this place just for those. The happy hour prices were quite good for NYC and the draft selection was extensive. The service was a little lacking (because of one specific waiter who will remain nameless) but I wouldn't read too much into that. It was a busy day and our waiter seemed nice enough, just bad at his job. He was fairly slow, even with the traffic, and he forgot some of our orders which were pretty simple. I suspect this was a one off occurrence but still it was pretty annoying. Overall JD's provided an average meal (mostly because of the chef decided not to do what was asked of him) for a normal NYC price.

My friends got sick after having oysters. The oysters had a weird taste. The staff isn't friendly and does not look happy. Good location and idea though. Could be much better.