The Fourth

I only came here once for brunch. The setting and ambiance are nice. But the food is terrible and service is just ok. Apparently it has come under new management. They used to have a jazz band on weekends but no more.

Overpriced for mediocre food… The oatmeal was watery and the orange flavor was too strong. Very disappointed at our breakfast and the lackluster service.

Went Sunday with friends for brunch. Very disappointing. They ran out of bacon and had nothing to substitute, service was very slow even with too many waiters. And when food came it was bland and tasteless. Portion are very small so u wind up leaving hungry. And don’t let me even start about the unisex bathroom. Do not recommend.

Simply an amazing place !! Every time I go for business meetings «breakfast-​lunch-​dinner» or just for a cocktail it’s amazing! Great service and very welcoming for all occasions!

party of 4
sunday dinner, with reservation
We had 3 restaurant week orders and 1 regular

What a nice surprise for Sunday brunch! I enjoyed the ambience & the live Jazz. Very relaxing atmosphere and I can actually talk. Most brunch in this area can’t even hear what server is saying, but this place is able to have conversation with the live music! Love it! The brunch comes with a free drink is another big plus :)

Bad service and the place and the people thinks of itself as this posh $$$ restaurant, buuut it’s not.
We went there for dinner on a Thursday and the place was pretty empty, aside from a few people at the bar and a group downstairs. The draw for us was the design. They have what looks like a set of baby crib frames chain linked on the ceiling.
My friend and I were seated promptly and the waiter that was serving us was polite. But that’s where it ended.
We were thinking about sharing a bottle of wine. When we asked to taste it, what I can only assume to be «the boss» came by and told us that they can’t open a bottle. We were thinking these are $ 90-​$ 150 bottle of wine. We’re not going to buy it without tasting. So we decided to go with the glasses. Which was ridiculous bc then the same wines were like $ 14 by the glass. I know my wines and the prices, I couldn’t understand it.
When we decided on the wine, we asked for a white, the waiter brings us a rosé. We tried not to make a deal of it but when my fish came, I knew I wasn’t going to be able to eat fish with bubbly rose. So I asked for the wine I originally asked for but the guy tried to tell me that he already put it on the tab. I had to ask him to remove.
Now we had the hake with the potatoes. It looked like it was going to be this amazing meal. Nope! The meal had no taste. Then the potatoes had this hodgepodge of butter and not fully cooked cherry tomatoes. It was so disappointing. My friend cracked a tone of salt and pepper on her. I drenched mine in my black pepper. I don’t see myself going back to this place and I wouldn’t recommend to my friends.

«Dinner was lovely. Ahmed our server was very attentive and accommodating.»

Had the best meal! Our waiter Bojan was great and the music super! Highly recommend it!

Came here for restaurant week and was thoroughly disappointed. Originally tried to go to All’onda but it was completely booked so we opted for this place.
Should have trusted the reviews telling me to go anywhere else but here, but we wanted to give this place the benefit of the doubt. Boy… were we wrong.
Walking in, they took our jackets for coat check and lead us to our table in a dimly lit, yet slightly intimate dining hall. Shortly after seating us down, was when the standards dropped to the floor.
We waited about 30 minutes just to flag down the waiter to order. I ordered the smoked white bean soup as an appetizer, house made spaghetti and meatballs as an entrée and the chocolate torte for dessert.
The white bean soup tasted worse than any campbells soup I’ve ever had… It was rough and gritty and tasted burnt. As for the spaghetti and meatballs, I thought, you can’t possibly mess that up… The spaghetti tasted like it was cooked over an hour ago and it started hardening towards the edges. The chocolate torte was unamusingly one of the better food choices of the night. A small scoop of chocolate ice cream slapped over an average piece of chocolate cake.
Overall, the service was bad. Waited roughly 20 – 30 minutes per each course of the night. Never refilled the water. The wine we ordered went warm within the first 30 minutes (the «ice bucket» the waiter put it in had no ice). The food was terrible, much worse than the service. Everything tasted a grade below campbells canned soups/​food.
This place had nice ambiance but absolutely terrible service and food. It wasn’t worth my money. After final thoughts about this place, I don’t think I would consider coming back.

The bartender here made me a special drink for my birthday, hands down the best Manhattan I have had!!! Definitely recommending this place!

Located in Hyatt Union Square in NYC, The Fourth defies any stereotype you may have about a «hotel restaurant.» The latest venture by husband-​and-​wife restaurateurs, Marco Moreira and Jo-​Ann Makovitzky of One Five Hospitality, The Fourth seamlessly combines the urban appeal of Union Square and the edgy ambiance of East Village with its creative New American cuisine.
Among its seasonal menu items include the Roasted Squash & Root Vegetable Salad ($ 18). Over a thin layer of creamy burrata, you get chunks of roasted root vegetables and squash drizzled with olive oil. The crispy quinoa chips add a nice crunch, while the watercress provides a slightly bitter tang to the dish.
My favorite appetizer — which is also perfect for sharing — is the Butternut Squash & Maitaki Mushroom Hearth Bread ($ 18). As the name suggests, the flatbread is baked in a heart oven to produce a perfectly thin and crispy dough. Top it off with generous amount of burrata, arugula, pumpkin seed, mushroom, and julienne butternut squash, and you get yourself one of the best tasting flatbread ever.
As for main entrée, you can’t go wrong with the signature Pink Salt Brick Roasted Amish Country Chicken ($ 24). The tender chicken breast is roasted in brick oven, thereby savoring all the juice and moisture. The chicken is also rubbed with pink salt, one of the purest salts that packs more vitamins and minerals than other types of salt. The dish comes with a side of shaved vegetables tossed in lemon vinaigrette.
The Hearth Roasted Rack of Berkshire Pork ($ 26) is another highlight. You get a hearty rack of lean pork glazed in savory violet mustard. Under the rack of pork is braised tuscan kale and rich purée of medjool dates. Don’t be shy about picking up the bone to get the last bit of the tender meat — I sure wasn’t.
For dessert, the Coffee & Cake ($ 12) is the perfect sampler to try something creamy, doughy, and fried. The espresso semifreddo, served in a little mug, has more of a chocolatey flavor than coffee with semi-​frozen pot of cream that is topped with crumbled coffee beans and snickerdoodle cookie. Because the pumpkin cake in the middle is a bit on the dry side, be sure to complement it with the creamy espresso semifreddo. The fried apple cake, which tastes like a less dense version of apple cider doughnut, has real bits of apples and topped with raspberry coulis.

IN SHORT: Less trendy and less inspired than some of the city’s other hotel restaurants, The Fourth is nonetheless an easy bet for simple, high quality, clean American cuisine around Union Square.
THE STORY: Much like people we all know, there are some restaurants that succeed moderately in their lives by doing a good job at the minimum required of them to get by. These restaurants have worked out a model of purposeful efficiency that seems to check off all the necessary elements of success without really looking for that ineffable quality of visionary inspiration that make them leaders in their field.
These are the types of restaurants that can be counted on to easily provide a successful, enjoyable meal, but have a hard time courting regulars who aren’t sure what makes the restaurant special.
The Fourth is that type of restaurant. Dishes are executed uniformly well, particularly the Yellowfin Tuna Tartare whose radish, cucumber, and ginger vinaigrette cleanly highlights the subtle, supple flavor of the fish. It might be one of the better versions of the dish crafted in a while, but it feels lost in a menu that rambles on without any creative guiding principles. It leaves the diner with the impression that although this was a good plate of food, it could probably be found anywhere else.
One also has to wonder why the pink salt brick roasted Amish Country chicken is the restaurant’s signature dish, for despite being tender and well seasoned with watercress and a chili-​lime vinaigrette, there is nothing exceptional about the plate. It seems to be an ordinary achievement, less special than the demands we make of other signature chicken entrees around the city.
The Grilled NY Strip Steak with crispy fingerling potatoes, watercress, and cipollini onions is another option that is executed almost perfectly, yet lacks any kind of exciting, innovative flourish that would guide the future of cooking in New York. It is regrettable, because one might crave steak on a weekly basis, but there is no reason one would crave the steak prepared at The Fourth.
The high-​ceilinged space also mirrors this sleek, parsed-​down version of success, with décor and service that hit just enough interesting notes correctly to keep the place in business. The risk here, of course, is that the system may be too efficient to make up for a failure of one element. When it takes 45 minutes after the appetizer course for an entrée to arrive, the pleasurable moments earlier in the meal may be forgotten, not special enough to withstand more serious scrutiny.
In a city like New York, we must ask more of our restaurants in order to push the boundaries and the discipline of the industry. It shouldn’t be enough for The Fourth to appeal to the average out-​of-​towner staying in the hotel above. We must ask for a little controversy in our restaurants, a little passion to ignite cooking that is not vetted by a democratic panel of hotel executives, but is thoughtful and adversarial and instills in us the vivid memory only food can create.
Put another way, The Fourth is a restaurant post-​gentrification. There is no authentic charm, no honest, human touch manifested in its work. It is the Starbucks of its kind — good, reliable, neutered, banal. The Fourth has played the game too safely, and when we walk out the door, it leaves us with an experience that will ultimately soon be forgotten.

Just came here for lunch on the recommendation of my friend who works for Hyatt. Everything we had was extremely delicious. Our waiter, Bojan, was very pleasant.
I had chosen the Prix Fixe corn soup, ravioli, and berry shortcake. My friend had the skirt steak with salad and potatoes. We both shared our meals but everything we ordered was cooked to perfection.

4 stars for the food, –2 stars for the service. Seriously, the only reason they get an extra star is because of the food.
I’m currently staying the Hyatt at Union Square, so figured I’d try The Fourth rather than getting room service.
The food was really good. I had the pork chop and fingerling potatoes. The pork was a huge helping and very nicely accompanied. The potatoes were cooked and seasoned perfectly. I couldn’t get enough.
But the service. Oh my goodness, the service. I don’t think I’ve ever had such bad service, especially when paying $ 50 for a meal.
I was dining on my own, and was clearly tired, but the hostess tried to seat me in the front area which has music as loud as a nightclub. I asked to be seated somewhere quieter, and after a sigh, she took me around the to dining area. Obviously she had stopped caring at that point, because she didn’t take away the second place place setting, and didn’t communicate to the wait staff that I was a party of 1.
Which brings me to the wait staff. They promptly brought me a glass of water, but it then took them 10 more minutes to ask if I wanted another drink, despite trying to catch them before they left with the water pitcher. 10 minutes after that, I finally got my drink. At this point I well and truly decided on my meal and had my menu closed and was playing on my phone. 5 minutes later I managed to flag someone down and ask them if I could order. They responded with, «Well, don’t you want to wait for the rest of your party?». No. It’s just me. It was a kerfuffle, but they managed to take my order. The food came out relatively speedily, which was a plus, but then I realized it was because they brought me someone else’s food. So 3 minutes later, I got my actual food. Luckily the food was good, because up until then I was just upset.
Once I finished eating, I put my knife and fork together, and started timing. A laughable 20 minutes later, during which I caught 3 waiters’ eyes, as well as the Manager (I was maybe 15 feet from the Manager’s station), I finally gave up and walked up to the four of them standing there to ask for my bill. To which their response was «Oh, you’re done?» No, I was just sitting alone in a restaurant like an idiot with a clean plate for the hell of it. Then they had the nerve to offer me dessert. Finally got my bill, wrote my room number on it, then had to find someone else to give it back to — they’d all scattered like cockroaches when you turn the lights on.
Needless to say, I won’t be returning. Which is a serious shame, since I’m staying in the hotel for the next 8 weeks.

Brunch is usually very hard to differentiate between restaurants since so many of the dishes are standardized. But this place… okay it’s the same brunch food as everywhere else but it also has a nice open window wall.

I ordered a salmon eggs benedict and got hard boiled eggs on top of a burnt muffin.
My friend’s eggs benedict was also burnt with hard boiled eggs.
I gave them two stars though because I loved the live music.

I love this place, great ambiance, Sunday brunch with live jazz, entire window wall opened for outdoor dining experience, FREE drink with brunch and yummy food. Until… today
Here is why…
1. Service: I know a lot of the reviews complained abt the staff… well here’s mine. The waiter we had wasn’t very friendly, we wanted to get side salad greens instead of the hash that comes with entrée, he got adamant quick saying «we can’t because of the esthetic of the plate»…I’ve been here before, never was a problem. If u goto any other brunch places, doing a swap for green in lieu of watever side is pretty normal. never heard of this «esthetic of plate» excuse. We didn’t get our water refilled, not even once. He should learn to be more friendly, it pays to be nice in service industry (aka tip).
2. Food: two of the dishes were eggs Benedict. now any chef would know eggs Benedicts egg is poached, and yolk runs. Here, we got our selves 4 boiled eggs. And our English muffin was black, aka burnt. I trashed half of it, cause couldn’t scrape it off. this is so basic, don’t understand how they can send out plate like that. need some quality check of the plate.
didn’t see the manager from my previous visits, he was so attentive and sweet and fun, think he’s name was Chris. he made sure things were good, we saw the current manager walking around, she wasn’t friendly either, just like the wait staff.
Really hope they get better staff, really a nice spot for brunch… hate to see the space goto waste like this.

Came here for Valentine’s Day. I really enjoyed the service and ambiance.
There was a problem with the double booking of the roses but it was fixed immediately. Great device.

2÷23÷15 restaurant week. The 3 stars — mostly for the décor and appetizer and main course, the wine list and desert fell short and the service while the waiter and bus boy were sweet, it was on the slow side and the restaurant was half empty. I had:
Sunchoke soup — AMAZING — cranberry beans, parmesan, hazelnut gremolata
Winter Squash Salad — very good
Pink Salt Brick Roasted Amish Country Chicken with shaved veggies and lemon vinaigrette — this was super juicy and lovely dish but lacked finesse.
Warm Rice Pudding with passion fruit sorbet — this was I hate to say it almost tasteless.
Over all — no reason to return here save for the soup. That was kick ass!