“Do you hear that silence?” executive chef Hillary Sterling says, welcoming me into Ci Siamo, the new Danny Meyer restaurant, where she’s in charge of the kitchen. “This is the moment I’m most excited about. That feeling of walking through a piazza in bustling New York City, and you turn a corner, step inside, and the door closes. And then you’re standing here—you’ve made it.”
Ci Siamo (pronounced “chee see-amo”) is Meyer’s first N.Y.C. restaurant opening in three years, and in early October it will welcome the first guests to its cozy dining room in Manhattan West, the slightly desolate eight-acre property-development complex situated just east of Hudson Yards, near the intersection of 31st Street and Ninth Avenue.
