Gold List - Top Hotel in New York City - Conde Nast Traveler, January 2006
Top 500 Hotels - Travel + Leisure, January 2006
Top Hotels in New York - Michelin Guide, 2006
Top 100 US and Canada - Travel + Leisure, July 2005
The World's Top Spas - Conde Nast Traveller Spa Awards, 2008
On the Hotel...
"The Lobby Lounge in the Mandarin Oriental, perched high atop the Time Warner building on the 35th floor is a warm and inviting bar/restaurant lounge overlooking one of the most sprawling and vibrant areas of the city. Its food brilliantly captures the essence of change while maintaining its Japanese roots. Opened in December 2003, this young restaurant has a vibrant menu…it’s a gorgeous setting to eat a meal in or pretend you’re in a movie." Asian Food & Lifestyle
"Urban Bliss…There are 62,800 hotel rooms in Manhattan. We say, choose one of the Mandarin Oriental’s 109 with this view of Central Park and champagne on ice. And orchids on your pillow. And a lap pool. And a chauffeur to drive you anywhere within 20 blocks. Three nights here and you’ll know you’ve made it."
Money, USA
"Though the lobby lounge is really fabulous, technology lovers who stay at Mandarin Oriental in New York City may never want to leave their rooms…The fabulous technology expenditures put Mandarin Oriental in a small but growing minority."
Newsweek, USA
"The expansive Lobby Lounge on the 35th floor of the new Mandarin Oriental…drips with old-time Manhattan swank. (Adjoining MObar doesn’t have the views, though it does have the occasional movie star.)"
National Geographic Traveler, USA
"In our dream hotel room we’d like….In-room technology with plug-and-play live broadcast capabilities, live television feeds, video conferencing and web streaming courtesy of Mandarin Oriental, New York."
Wallpaper
"The high rollers who stay at Mandarin Oriental don’t settle for low floors with brick-wall views. That’s why the guest rooms start on the 38th floor and head skyward from there…I like the rooms at the Mandarin Oriental because, like any regular Joe, I think having several flat-panel LCD TVs in my suite is swell...The only thing better than the rooms is the hotel’s immaculate Spa."
Aaron Dalton, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA
On Asiate...
"Plan to be blown away by the "breathtaking views" "high above Central Park" - as well as "beautiful" decor rated No. 1 in NYC - as you savor "exciting" Japanese-French "fusion at its best" and enjoy "impeccable" service at chef Noriyuki Sugie's "posh" dining room at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel; if the "sky-high" setting doesn't induce vertigo, the towering tab may - though the $24 lunch prix fixe is a "bargain"."
2008 New York Restaurants Zagat Guide, USA
"The Toni Chi–designed restaurant of the super-luxe Mandarin Oriental…is wham-bam glam…we pronounce Asiate a winner."
Jeremy Wayne, Tatler, UK
"The latest restaurant to get Uptowner’s approval is Asiate, the culinary soul of the new Mandarin Oriental…The menus are always inventive…The setting is magical…"
Catherine Fairweather, Harper’s & Queen, UK
"Hot Spots…my demure, usually unflappable mother has stopping agitating for her annual luncheons at Swifty’s or the Four Seasons’ Grill and demands to be taken instead to the glass-walled dining room at Asiate, high in the sky over Columbus Circle at the new Mandarin Oriental hotel."
New York magazine, USA
"You don’t sip the chocolaty dessert martini that’s offered occasionallly at Asiate – the spectacular restaruant in the Mandairn Oriental…you dip a spoon into the three-layer sweet…it’s a perfect way to cap a celebratory meal, and goes nicely with a cup of espresso." Rosemary Black, New York Daily News, USA
