THE GREAT OUTDOORS
Embrace summer with these outdoor locales
By Tasting Table

New Yorkers are cooped together in our offices and apartments during the crueler, colder months. With that in mind, Tasting Table exhorts you to claim a little slice of open-air heaven at one of these eight splendid outdoor dining locales:
RESTAURANT
Gramercy Terrace
(Gramercy)
WHY YOU SHOULD EAT THERE
Jean-Paul Bourgeois, formerly of Maialino, has redone the food at this lush, 18th-floor garden oasis. The brunch and lunch menus bump with a new Lowcountry influence (think Louisiana crawfish sausage with charred spring-onion mustard), and the environment is surpassingly calm.
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Outdoor Dining