NYC’s Newest Restaurant Likened To A Favorite Childhood Book ‘On LSD’

Ella Quittner had a funny take: “An almost laughable number of plates hung from chains overhead, like a bondage den had crossed with a Pottery Barn, and there were amphibians everywhere. There was a giant one hanging among the plates, there was a portrait of one in FDNY dress that a server said was an homage to a former regular who had passed away ... See more

In front of a fireplace across the room, a woman crooned into a microphone. A wraparound fever dream of a mural depicting carousing frogs in Prohibition-era cocktail attire ran the length of both dining rooms. Hundreds of plates were suspended from the ceiling with vaguely sinister chains, while an antique clock and several framed works of art also... See more

However, by forcing patrons to stop capturing content, and attempting to generate an artificial sense of mystique, it all feels a little contrived. As Emily over at Feed Me wrote in her review of Frog Club : “don’t treat me like a child and put a sticker on my phone, give me free bread, allow walk-ins, and stop trying so hard” .