Wallsé

One of the best restaurants I've been to in many years. Fantastic food and service, and an very interesting menu. So quiet and calm, I almost forgot I was in NYC.

Outstanding food as always.

New York has already a lot to offer, however true Austrian (and southern German) kitchen is hard to find. Wallsé is hitting this spot. Very nice atmosphere, paired with excellent food, wine and staff. We will come again!

Excellent food, friendly staff, and good ambiance. Great place to talk.

Such a special and delicious place! A longtime favorite!

One of our favorite places in NYC. True Austrian food and drink. Knowledgeable and accommodating staff. Can’t wait to go back for another schnitzel.

Fantastic meal in this one Michelin star gem that features authentic Austrian cuisine in a wonderful setting. Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner does a brilliant job of marrying ingredients in the most creative of ways and his staff are outstanding in every way. Benjamin, who is from Austria took us on a journey through his country during the meal, telling us delightful stories of his country’s culture and food. The meal was a complete success. We started with Arctic Char then moved to rabbit spatzle and chanterelle goulash for a trip into Austria itself. Both were beyond delicious and worked well together. Then, we opted for halibut and veal wiener schnitzel. The later was served with lingon berries. For dessert, we had a pear strudel and a salzburger nockerl which was a soufflé. All were incredibly good. Mary also had a wonderful wine pairing of her four dishes with all Austrian wines. In the end, visit this terrific restaurant next time you visit the city.

Wallsé has become one of my favorite restaurants in New York. The food, service, and decor are all excellent. The decor is classy and cozy at the same time, the service was impeccable and thoughtful, the food sophisticated but filling. We plan to make it our special occasion restaurant.

Absolutely spectacular food and service. The Austrian wine list is particularly delectable! Arguably one of our favorite NYC experiences for people who dine out a lot. Kudos to the chef and staff.

Excellent meal, great service. It’s on my favorite list for NY now.

Disappointing. Big lack of flavors. The signature dish was...vapid. Service was still very good.

The food and ambiance was good as always. We were a bit surprised at how expensive it wound up to be, with individual glasses of wine and desserts very pricey. Dinner for four was in excess of $500 which included four glasses of wine and two desserts, two courses per person.

Unless you are a friend of the management, give this haughty and expensive place a pass.
We were left standing in the doorway for half an hour
Nowhere to sit
No drink offered
Our table had been ‘overbooked’
We were told it would be half an hour
After half an hour,
A large party arrived, was warmly greeted and seated right in front of us
BTW, we were booked, confirmed and reconfirmed for a family Birthday
We left.
Revien jamais.

Excellent experience. The price fixe menu is appropriately flexible with top notch presentation, and the wine choices are a treat for those looking for the very best range of gruner veltliner.

Wallse is consistently great. Excellent food, wine, and service in a relaxed but elegant surrounding.

It’s always good...ALWAYS. Wallse never disappoints the service is friendly without being overbearing. The drinks are expertly crafted, make sure to peruse the cocktail menu, and the food is exceptional, the schnitzel, the duck, the spatzle there isn’t a bad option. Choose four courses, it’s worth it. The space and the art are wonderful and the overall experience can be capped off with a mozartkugel which will be remembered for quite a while.

We went for our anniversary and had a great time. The food was delicious, service was impeccable and the wine was amazing.

tasting menu was great, spaetzle overcooked, everything else was perfect

Awesome menu also portions are large. Ambience is great and bar ample

Wonderful food . The spatzle with rabbit is divine! We ate at the bar and service was great. She recommended a wondering dry reisling wine.

Wonderful food.
Impecable service.
Not to be missed

The creative, Austrian themed food , was delicious. The wine list was incredibly comprehensive and included every Austrian wine there is! There were two very knowledgeable somaliers. The restaurant is lovely, with three separate rooms, which greatly helped the noise level. I enjoyed the Wiener schnitzel with an incredible potato salad and lingonberries. My husband had the steak, also very good. We shared a pear strudel, melt in your mouth. Definitely a return!

Food was fantastic and the smaller size of the restaurant facilitated service and quality of experience. Bar was nice before and after dinner. Only qualm is that they insisted on making old fashioneds with seltzer water. It’s a preference thing but still a thing...

Absolutely perfection from atmosphere to food / wonderful to reconnect / will be back soon ‼️

It did not live up to its reputation, the price point or my past experience there. Waiter was friendly, but a bit inept - no spoon or sugar for iced tea, didn’t take empty plates away, etc.

Worst was that the Wiener Schnitzel was really tough. (You’d think they’d get THIS one right!) More than one table complained. The manager tried to be very gracious and adjusted the bill, but the damage was done.

I suspect management needs to pay a little better attention to what is going on in their multi-location empire.

It's a fantastic place to have dinner. One of the best dinner places in NYC

Really fantastic and interesting food. Absolutely delicious. I do wish the wait staff was a little less uptight. Very serious - but maybe the vibe they are going for.

The food was overall very good as was the service. We thought the corn soup with crab and the foie gras terrine were the highlights of the meal. The tarragon in the soup was pleasant and a great touch, you could taste sweet crab and it was not offset by the sweet summer corn. The foie gras was a very generous portion with fresh flavorful strawberries and light brioche. The Salzburger nokerl and schnitzel were also excellent (though a few large chunks of burnt sugar in the nokerl could have been avoided). The heirloom tomato starter with lobster was a bit of a miss, with good ingredients not coming together as one. Everything else was very good, but all with some slight issues, but the value was very good, $89 for four courses and a really nice $60 wine. However, I really felt that with just a few bits of greater attention to detail, Wallse would go from being a 'fantastic deal' to one of the best restaurants in town.

Great pretty place. Excellent staff- so nice. Food was amazing but there was not enough of it despite having four courses. Summer menu - all was good. Tasting Menu- Pea Ravioli- very good. Lemon sole, good but portion was maybe 2 ounces. Foie gras- very good- good sized. If price isn't an issue, this is a great place to try. The portions are small but delicious.

One day, years from now, I will think back on this restaurant and smile. How can you not? This is easily one of the most wonderful places in Manhattan. No, it isn't brash. It isn't farm-to-table. It isn't something flashy. It is, rather, like your favorite cardigan sweater. It is comfy. It is delicious. And it is perfect.

Part of what makes Wallse perfect is its staff. The bar, with its adorable bartender, is a delight. The assistant sommelier, who may bend the ears of your neighboring table with the history of the Cistercian monasteries and their role on the homogenization of the grape varietals in their control, is gentle and assured in his craft. And the waiters are engaging, capable, and kind.

But really, you're here for the schnitzel, aren't you? Well, if you're not, you should be. And have some of the quark spaetzle on the side. I think Wallse's schnitzel, with its lingonberry goodness and erdapfel salat, could probably be a candidate for my last meal. Finish off with some sachertorte. And maybe a little nip of fruit schnapps.

I know that some day, Wallse will be gone; I am almost mourning this future loss today. But for now, get there and enjoy it. A restaurant with an amazing team, an amazing schnitzel, and you can actually hear your dinner guest without straining to hear. I think Wallse is perfection.

Outstanding

After seeing the menu, we had high hopes. But you enter and are greeted with blasting '60s rock music. Who decided we wanted to listen to that? Why should I have to put up with someone else's idea of this kind of entertainment. It was like being on the beach and having to listen to another person's blaring boom bos. We almost left because we wanted a quiet place for conversation. But it was raining and didn't want to walk around looking for something quiet, which, increasingly, is an impossibility. Overall, compared to any moderate restaurant in Vienna, Salzburg or Innsbruck I've ever been to, it's half as good and twice as expensive. In terms of food, it is a fairly close approximation of what you would find in Austria. However, the food was so salty that it was almost bitter. The service was obsequious and rushed. Why can't New York restaurants understand that service should be attentive without being intrusive? And why does the waiter always have to keep interrupting to ask if everything is OK? In this case, because we knew we would never return, we just didn't get into the problems. Why start a fuss? It started with a rush to order the meal at the same time as we ordered cocktails. The waiter came to the table, with order pad in hand, as soon as we were seated with barely time to even pick up the menu. The first course arrived in a split second. No lingering over drinks allowed. The following courses arrived in equal speed. The waiter kept picking up my Martini glass to see if it was empty. I finally asked him if he needed the glass. He laughed. With three courses, we were in and out of there in about an hour. Not my idea of a leisurely evening out. You could barely put your fork down before it was scooted away. And no need to ask for the check; it came with blazing speed as well. It's a pretty restaurant, but the noise, the creepy service and the just-OK food takes this off the special occasion destination that the hefty prices implied it would be.

Extraordinary ambiance, food and service. It never fails to disappoint!

Best Wiener Schnitzel in the city!!

Absolutely deserves the Michelin star. Service was professional and attentive, food was outstanding. Don't miss the sacher torte!

Wallse was wonderful.
Inventive food options, incredible service and subdued ambiance.

Food was great and very well presented. Very Austrian but in a more modern fashion. Service terrific. Extensive Austrian wine list but don't go there if you don't want Austrian wine.

Just a WONDERFUL neighborhood jem that I would recommend!!

We were attracted to Wallse by its intriguing menu and first Michelin star, and we were certainly rewarded for our curiosity. The food was exquisite, the service warm and informed and the atmosphere intimate yet relaxed. We were celebrating our wedding anniversary, and the restaurant certainly made the evening memorable.

After all these years and many newcomers, this is still one of New York's great restaurants! Best schnitzel and duck and of course, the desserts in the city.