Cafe Clover

Great farm to table type entrees, moderately priced bottles of wine. Menu is always evolving.

This is a good place to eat out and still be healthy. All the dishes are veggie focused. They have an excellent burger though. They remove the temptation by not even offering fries there! Its ok but I'm more of a meat eater so I don't frequent it too often.

This spot was ok. Appetizers were fantastic but the branzino a few of us ordered were completely filled with bones, even after being "de-boned". That was a big disappointment for what would have otherwise been a quality dining experience.

I've dined at Cafe Clover twice in the past 2 weeks. The food is remarkable. My first dining experience, with my husband, was quite lovely. We arrived at 6 pm and by 8 we were out of there. The wait staff were attentive, courteous, helpful. Consequently, I recommended the restaurant to several friends and made my next reservation for a Wednesday evening. When my guest and I arrived that evening at 6:30, the noise level was relatively tenable. Unfortunately, within an hour, my guest and I, sitting across from one another at a small table, had to scream in order to hear one another. Again, the food was absolutely delicious, but the noise level made the dining experience very unpleasant. To my surprise, as our entrees arrived, one of the friends I'd recommended the restaurant to arrived with his friend. They too found the food of very high quality. But the next day, he wrote me the following: The partners of Cafe Clover who own several equally good restaurants in New York knew perfectly well, given the building materials, the number of expected clients, and the needs of a full attending staff, that the noise level was bound to be problematic. As it is, over a year now after the opening, it is still more than problematic, turning the dinner into some kind of brutal torture. You sit there wishing that it was over, cursing in your mustache the owner, the waiter, the chef, the friend who recommended the place, and your guest, who sensing your disarray and hoping to interject some bonne humeur, ends by paying the bill! The experience is deeply unfair to the customer of course, but no less to the chef whose cooking is of very high quality, and to the very nice staff who do not stop apologizing. The real cause of all this unhappiness: the greed of the owners. And they speak about studying the problem. The restaurant has been open over a year!

It is unfortunate that so many excellent restaurants in New York city make dining out, which should be a pleasant experience, a noisy, ear splitting, unpleasant one. I doubt I will ever return to Cafe Clover unless, of course, I use ear plugs and dine alone, which is unlikely.

Creative produce and season inspired menu (burrata with fig jam, miso glazed carrots, grilled gem lettuce with octopus) with hipster-bistro vibes. Slick service and cool locally made chocolate tasting platter on dessert menu.