[5] The Contemporary American cuisine is fresh and seasonal, and includes local items such as New Jersey scallops and Dover sole.

[6] The elegant, gracious, plush restaurant is decorated in the style of an English manor house.

[2][7][8][9][10] It seats 90 diners, and has dark mahogany decor lightened by large floral arrangements.

[14] In a 2002 review in The New York Times, entitled "A Frump Does Something About It", William Grimes gave it one star and wrote that: "The Carlyle Restaurant used to feel like one big frayed cuff.

Now it takes its rightful place alongside the dining rooms in Manhattan's finest hotels.