Suite Sixteen is the first official joint project between Tao Group Hospitality and Madison Square Garden since Tao Group Hospitality joined the MSG family in February 2017. ![]() Membership tiers range from Access level, for those who already have event tickets to experience the suite’s amenities, to top-of-the-line memberships, which include reserved priority seating, exclusive marketing/branding opportunities, and private access to the suite. Selections include TAO’s famous Satay of Chilean Sea Bass with a Misoyaki Glaze, LAVO Meatballs, and Bodega Negra Tacos, to name a few. Members will enjoy a variety of menu items from Tao Group Hospitality restaurants, curated by chef/partners Ralph Scamardella and Chris Santos. Additional fixtures throughout the suite include wood veneer covered walls, leather bar stools, and a custom-built wood and chrome bar adorned with premium spirits, wine, and champagne. A plush leather sofa wraps around part of the common area, complete with cocktail tables and studded armchairs. The suite features luxe leather stadium-style seating with a prime view of the arena floor. Named Suite Sixteen – a nod back to Noah Tepperberg and Jason Strauss’ first ultra-exclusive NYC nightspot – the suite transports members to an opulent lounge that delivers Tao-style luxury combined with top MSG sports and entertainment. to 1 a.m.Tao Group Hospitality presents a custom-designed members-only suite at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. to midnight, and Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. ![]() The restaurant has space for walk-ins and takes reservations Monday through Thursday, from 6 p.m. It takes design inspiration from the Bowery, Japanese street culture, and retro punk rock, as well as elements of vaudeville and burlesque. Saka No Hana is a 4,227 square-foot space that seats 165, in a building whose design was spearheaded by the Rockwell Group, an architecture firm that’s designed places like Union Square Cafe, Nobu, Daily Provisions, and New York’s Zaytinya. Tao in Midtown, the group’s original pan-Asian clubstarant, opened in 2000, while Midtown’s Lavo and Beauty and Essex on the Lower East Side have both been open for 12 years. So far, Tao has 30 properties in New York City among 70 worldwide. “We have customers who plan their social calendars entirely within our collection restaurants,” he says. The New York City Rent Guidelines Board voted on Wednesday to pass a rent hike for the roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments in the city. The hotel is a microcosm of the larger Tao empire, according to Tepperberg. He is trained in French and Italian cooking and opened several venues for Wolfgang Puck before joining the company. Kojima in particular was born in Japan and has been head of culinary development for Tao since 2013 with the opening of Tao downtown. Chefs for the restaurant group, Ralph Scamardella and Jason Hall, along with Yoshi Kojima, he says, are key to that goal. “We saw how well Japanese restaurants have done in New York, but we wanted to do it right,” says Tao Group co-CEO Noah Tepperberg. It’s Tao’s the fourth partnership with Moxy Hotels. Sake No Hana also features cocktails named Liquid Swords (similar to an Old Fashioned) and Kusama’s Full Happiness, a drink infused with Sichuan peppercorns that range from $19 to $27. The restaurant says it’s flying in fish from Tokyo’s Toyosu Market and snow-aged sirloin from Niigata in Western Japan. Sake No Hana is only open for dinner (no hotel room service at Moxys) and in a revival of a pre-2020 ritual among deep-pocketed restaurant groups, involved an R&D trip to Japan that brought back items like tonkatsu that’s an homage to destination-worthy Narikura in Tokyo and an in-house sesame oil press, among other things. With dishes like crispy gyoza, three-egg chawanmushi, kelp-wrapped snapper, short-rib fried rice, and Ginza chicken, the menu is sectioned by snacks ($6 to $24), small ($12 to $ 34) and large plates ($16 to $36), sushi, robata ($4 to $7), noodles and rice ($17 to $24), and entrees ($31 to $65). The restaurant has assembled an izakaya-style menu that it claims blends New York and Japanese sensibilities with Japanese techniques. All venues are now open, barring Silver Lining. ![]() In addition to the restaurant, there’s Silver Lining, a piano lounge opening Saturday, December 10 the Highlight Room, a rooftop bar the Fix, an all-day cafe and lobby bar, and Loosie’s, a subterranean club. Restaurant Empire Tao Group Hospitality has teamed up with Marriott International’s Moxy Hotels to open Sake No Hana at 145 Bowery, near Broome Street, on December 6 on the Lower East Side, its first Japanese restaurant in the group and one of a handful Tao concepts at Moxy conceived as the hotel was built from the ground up.
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