(Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images) Whether or not a restaurant like Jean-George is a work of art becomes moot if it is placed in the same pantheon as a lechonera, taqueria or pizzeria. Which was ...

Manuela features a dining room table designed by Rashid Johnson and paintings by George Condo, Jenny Holzer, and more.

As we went to sit down, one of my dinner mates, the artist Ben Noam, remarked to Wirth that “this must be the restaurant with the best art collection in New York.” “It’s like the ...