The RG checks in on South Gate, Kerry Heffernan's new high end restaurant in the Essex House and gives it a measly 1.5 stars. Space is impressive, but the food? Not so much: "With its glitzy glass façade overlooking the park, it's a radically hip departure from Ducasse's classically French production...Beyond familiar holdovers from Eleven Madison Park, Heffernan fails to deliver new thrills. Employing a vast hodgepodge of ingredients, his dishes tend to emerge in a blizzard of flavors with little rhyme or reason to their union...The meat entrees were an altogether grim roster of consistently fatty cuts, stripped of critical succulence." [NYDN]

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