riontel | Restaurant recommendation

We had a staff meeting in NY this week and as is the tradition our boss took us out to dinner on the first evening. The place he picked was called Hillstone, it's on the corner of 54th and 3rd, and it provided us with a very enjoyable and delicious dinner. I had a bronzini, which was one of their specials that day. It was done to perfection in some lemony sauce with a sprinkling of almonds. They are very flexible with the sides and I switched my wilted spinach (nasty!) for a lovely fresh salad with a house dressing. Portions there are not the usual enormous size but a quite manageable one serving, I finished mine, so if you are really hungry an appetizer might be useful. For dessert we split a warm five-nut brownie, which was absolutely fantastic, even though they did contaminate it with some ice cream. I hate it when people dump ice cream (or whipped cream) on top of cakes. I was quick enough to move the scoop to the side and fed it to my companions before the melting mess did damage to the brownie. Other than that everything was perfect, including a fairly quick and attentive service and nice atmosphere. Boss was picking up the tab so I didn't pay much attention to the prices but it's rated $$$ on Yelp.