MIL birthday dinner...

[PetiteSyrah]

My mother-in-law will be in town this week, and we're looking to take her out Saturday night for a belated birthday dinner. She likes trendy but not painfully so. Most kinds of food work--I think New American/upscale comfort food would be ideal. I always like to try someplace new, so here are few we have been to that I would have thought of for this dinner:

Apiary
Perilla
Hearth

Any suggestions in this general vein and price point? Anywhere in Manhattan works!

Thanks.

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Perilla
9 Jones Street, New York, NY 10014

[rrems]

Unfortunately anyplace really trendy will already be booked up for this Saturday. If food is most important and if Provencal French would work I would highly recommend Allegretti.

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Allegretti
46 West 22nd Street, New York, NY 10010