Arakataka

The name is borrowed from Gabriel García Márquez — the fictional town in Colombia where he set much of his work — and the reference is apt in ways that are not immediately obvious. Arakataka the restaurant is a place where things arrive unexpectedly, combinations that shouldn't work reveal their logic, and the experience is more vivid than the setting would suggest. On Mariboes Gate, just around the corner from the Rockefeller Music Hall, it does not announce itself. Inside, it is something else: a glass-fronted room with a central food bar, an open kitchen that is the actual centre of the room's energy, and a concise menu of seasonal Norwegian small plates that earns its Michelin Bib