{"id":196928,"date":"2026-04-14T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196928\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:39:08","slug":"the-consulate-opens-in-nyc-with-a-big-terrace-making-it-the-perfect-midtown-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196928\/","title":{"rendered":"The Consulate Opens in NYC with a Big Terrace, Making it the Perfect Midtown Destination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening Friday, April 17, The Consulate is taking over the longtime home of El Rio Grande on East 38th Street, turning the corner into a 300-plus-seat dining destination that pairs polished French-meets-New American cooking with a very strategic warm-weather perk: a sprawling outdoor setup made for lingering.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been to The Consulate\u2019s other New York City locations<\/a>, you might already know the drill. The restaurant, founded by twin brothers Kiril and Metodija Mihajlov, is both easy-going and elegant, a place where you could just as easily post up for oysters and Martinis as you could settle in for a full dinner.<\/p>\n

The Murray Hill outpost builds on that, but at a much bigger scale. Inside, the buzzy space can move easily from cocktails to dinner service. But outside is the real draw: an expansive terrace shared with its sibling concept next door, with room for more than 200 guests across the property.<\/p>\n

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The menu is equally wide-ranging. Seafood is a clear anchor, with a raw bar lineup that includes tuna tartare with yuzu, oysters, shrimp cocktail and seafood towers. There\u2019s also a dedicated sushi program\u2014think crispy rice with spicy tuna, yellowtail with jalape\u00f1o and specialty rolls.<\/p>\n

From there, things branch out quickly, with French staples like mussels in white wine and French onion soup, plus crowd-pleasers like truffle mushroom flatbread and crab cakes. Mains include steak frites and dry-aged ribeye, along with miso-pomegranate salmon, roasted chicken and a short rib cavatelli. And, of course, there\u2019s a burger\u2014topped with caramelized onions and goat cheese.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a second act built right in: At the Office, a high-end sports bar opening in the same space, offers a more casual, late-night energy (and plenty of screens). Together, the two concepts are meant to function as a fluid night out\u2014start with dinner, end with drinks, no Uber required.<\/p>\n

For a corner that\u2019s spent more than 40 years as a Tex-Mex standby, it\u2019s a big shift. But if nothing else, Murray Hill just gained a terrace worth planning around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opening Friday, April 17, The Consulate is taking over the longtime home of El Rio Grande on East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2590,9,24,55,54,2591,56,821],"class_list":{"0":"post-196928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-categories-restaurants","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-news-eating","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}