The Patina Restaurant Group owns 60 restaurants including favorites such as Café Cento, Brasserie, Brasserie 8 1⁄2, Sea Grill, La Fonda Del Sol, Cuccina & Co and Naples 45. Their newly opened elegant addition to the renovated Empire State Building is next on our list of soon to be favorites. With an art deco and sleek modern interior, State Grill is sure to impress. Dishes are all locally sourced and guests can watch their food being prepared in the open kitchen by Chef Octavio Becerra, of famed Acabar in Hollywood. Our meal starts with a choice of salad with marinated anchovies, rustic croutons, parmigiano reggiano or seafood chowder with jalapeno & bacon, followed by Skuna bay salmon or braised short rib with celery root, and ends with a dessert of honeycrisp apple pie with brown sugar, rolled oat crumble and crème fraiche.