As this trip was also meant to be as a culinary to tour of some of NY’s top restaurants, this night we had booked Cosme, which at the time held the 22nd spot on the world’s 50 best list.

Of course we started with a cocktail at the King Cole Bar, before taking the hotel car to Cosme.






It was our first experience with Mexican food (a trip to Mexico followed in September), but we started with some margerita’s and then followed with some of the dishes recommended by the waiter.

Food was good but not blown away. Restaurant has since dropped to number 69 on the world’s 50 best list.













One disturbance however was that they did not have a credit card machine that could be used with the chip of your credit card and a pin code, only swiping the magnetic strip. Our European credit cards of course don’t work with just swiping the magnetic strip so we were unable to pay.

They graciously let us leave without paying. We involved the concierge of the St. Regis to have them transfer the money some way, but Cosme is so busy that they don’t answer phone calls and e-mails, so we couldn’t settle the bill that way.

On our last day in NY we headed back to Cosme in the afternoon to try to settle the bill and once again, even after filling out lots of paperwork their credit card machine couldn’t manage so in the end we had to go and look for an ATM to withdraw the required cash. So conclusion, if you dine at Cosme and your from Europe: make sure you have cash on hand.