Or'esh
Or'esh cooks Levantine food over a live-fire grill in SoHo, and the short rib that comes off it is soft enough to eat with a spoon at $87. Bryan Kim rated it 8.1 for The Infatuation in April 2026, and his headline reads
the scene comes first, but the food is a close second.1
Why go
A grilled wagyu skewer comes off the same grill, crackly in all the right places.1 This is the SoHo sibling of The Corner Store, from a group that works the Miami, Vegas and Scottsdale circuit, and Kim is blunt that the room is a scene before it is a restaurant.1 Dominique Roy wants to eat here and has not yet, on the strength of what friends have told him.2
Order this / avoid
- Order: the Jerusalem bagel.
Puffy like a Neapolitan pizza, it arrives hot enough to scald your fingertips, in a pool of olive oil with a heap of za'tar.
1 - Order: the prime beef short rib at $87. Kim:
that price tag subsidizes all the little extras.
1 - Avoid: the crispy potato pastel under golden ossetra. Kim says there is so much caviar the one-biter goes mushy, and calls it
a safe skip
.1
What locals & experts say
- Bryan Kim, The Infatuation (14 April 2026), rating it 8.1:
Or'esh is what comes next: a more subdued scene for the set that flies business, with a Mediterranean menu that's interesting enough for anyone who actually came to eat.
And the caveat in his own words:the place smells like money, but some of the food is genuinely impressive.
1 - Dominique Roy, Eleven Madison Park, in The Relisher (4 August 2026), and he has not been:
The food looks amazing, and the style of food they do is exactly the kind of food that I love: Mediterranean, really simple, so delicious when it's really well done.
2 He is saying he wants to go, not what dinner was like.
Good to know
- Booking: reservations open on DoorDash seven days ahead.1
- Walking in: line up outside by 4pm. A host starts taking names around 4:25pm and texts you if a table or a bar seat frees up.1
Verdict
could-visit — Dominique Roy has not eaten here, so Bryan Kim's 8.1 is the whole record. That is one review, from April 2026, and it grades the scene above the cooking. No source prices a dinner beyond the single $87 plate.