This well-hidden hotel restaurant is reliably good and often excellent. But you will likely be one of the only diners there. This can be useful, if you're looking for a place for a quiet, private dinner. The style is distinctly local, but with a forward-looking edge. The one lively part of 7 On Fulton is its bar, which stays open all day with an excellent bar menu. The restaurant runs frequent promotions and wine dinners that are usually very good. It's also a good place to remember for holidays when everyone else is packed.
The Wyndham Riverside Hotel's restaurant began life not long after the hurricane under the management of Vicky Bayley (who is now back at her old stand, Mike's on the Avenue). She and her first chef set a fine standard at 7 on Fulton, one maintained by Chef Matthew. (Who came here from Flaming Torch.)
The building is a reconstructed warehouse on the formerly industrial Fulton Street, which still has a few active warehouse within eyeshot. The long dining room extends from the hotel's rear entrance along a wall of windows. Spacious and spare in design, it has enough quirks to give it life--the salmon-colored chairs, notably. The space is divided by panels and urns full of sticks, adding to the intimacy and defeating some of the echoes. Service staff, which appears at first to be absent, suddenly appears and handles all their tastes well.
The restaurant has free valet parking on the Convention Center Blvd. side of the hotel.
| Attitude | 2 |
|---|---|
| Environment | 1 |
| Hipness | 2 |
| Local Color | 1 |
| Service | 0 |
| Value | 0 |
| Wine | 1 |
