Meduza Mediterrania

On our lists of the best live music venues and special-occasion restaurants in New York.

Three dining rooms, a VIP mezzanine and a glass-enclosed atrium hold Meduza's rattan chairs and curved woodwork, filled out with enough plants to soften an otherwise fine-dining room. A violinist and a DJ trade off through the night over dishes like wagyu carpaccio, a two-pound lobster tower and truffle cacio e pepe, most of them plated with some kind of tableside flourish. The Fig & Honey cocktail arrives inside a smoke-filled glass box, in keeping with the theatrics elsewhere on the menu. Reservations are strongly encouraged, business casual is enforced, and kids under 16 are expected to clear out by 7pm.