WMS Dads Dinner Feb 2025 @ Port Sa'id

WMS Dads Dinner Series @ Port Sa'id

Dinner will be held in the main dining room with a prix fixe menu of $65 per person (excludes sales tax and 20% gratutity). An example of the menu is below.

The event is available on a first come basis due to limited seating. To reserve, please use the "Reserve" link to hold your spot and feel free to join the waitlist if sold out -- the restaurant indicated that they may be able to accommodate additional guests.

Event Details:

• Date: February 27
• Time: 7:00 PM
• Location: Port Sa'id
• Address: 88 King Street (at Hudson Street)

Sample Prix Fixe Menu

The chef sets the menu daily to incorporate fresh local produce and seasonal ingredients. Some items on the sample menu may be unavailable.

COURSE ONE (DIPS)

• 4 spicy instruments
• Tahini plate
• Crème fraiche plate

COURSE TWO (VEGGIES)

• Bread salad
• Burning potato
• Charred gem lettuce
• Batata
• Pencil asparagus
• Beetroot carpaccio

COURSE THREE (PROTEINS)

• Hummus gargarim
• Golden calamari
• Lamb kebab

FINAL COURSE

• Chef’s choice desserts

Conde Nast Traveler

Review: Port Sa’id

https://www.cntraveler.com/restaurants/new-york-city/port-said

If you’re looking for a Mediterranean paradise with hummus you’ll want to swim in, Port Sa’id is a must visit. Port Sa’id joins Eyal Shani’s buzzy NYC spots HaSalon, Miznon, and Shmoné—all imports from original locations in Tel Aviv. Located on a quiet corner of Hudson Square, the restaurant is surrounded by windows and high ceilings, with an open layout and a kitchen you can easily peer into. The menu is extensive but straightforward in how it features fresh ingredients throughout, including sweet potato with creme fraiche ($8), decadent lamb kebab ($21), and unlimited fluffy Challah, which comes with the hummus ($16). It’s a spot that welcomes anyone from singles at the bar to large families with kids, and would make for a great group dinner with endless shareables to choose from.

INFATUATION

Port Sa’id

https://www.theinfatuation.com/new-york/reviews/port-said

Filled with a sea of tables covered in brown butcher paper, Port Sa’id is a cavernous place with a mile-long bar, a listening lounge for vinyl nerds, and a DJ booth flanked by speakers large enough to communicate with the outer reaches of our solar system. All of that is very impressive, but it’s not what makes this place exciting.

The second location of a Tel Aviv spot from the chef behind Miznon and Shmoné, this Hudson Square restaurant has a basic, winning formula: prices that don't make you want to cede the Greater Soho area to the current crop of TikTok creators, and simple food that has no business being as good as it is. Everything else is just a nice bonus.

Printed daily in Comic Sans, the king of all fonts, Port Sa’id’s menu reads like it was assembled at an ayahuasca retreat. Flowery descriptions promise “sourdough rocks,” “vegetable creatures,” and “a faint memory from the alleys of Jerusalem.” This prose may remind you of the last time you were forced to eat food inspired by a chef's childhood memories at Momofuku Ko, but don't hit the panic button. The dishes here aren't fussy. In most cases, they're not even complex.

A third of the menu consists of straightforward sandwiches on fluffy white bread, and most other options rely heavily on fresh produce. A beet carpaccio topped with shaved horseradish is easily greater than the sum of its parts, and a baked potato stuffed with crème fraîche will make you want to move Scarsdale, throw away your iPhone, and live off the land. There are regular cameos from schug and tomato seeds—notably on some luxurious roast beef—and you'll see dill, mint, and parsley everywhere, as if the restaurant gets a tax break if they use enough herbs.

Bring a group, split a bunch of things, and chat over an all-vinyl soundtrack compliments of the nightly DJ listed at the bottom of the menu. Almost all of the dishes costs less than $20, which helps explain why Port Sa’id feels like a block party, even on a weeknight when the area is otherwise deserted, aside from a few fintech folks walking their golden retrievers. After dinner, head to the hidden bar in the back and bathe in some ambient music while you reflect on all the tahini you just ate. You can buy a few records there, which is another little perk...(see link for full story)

EATER

The Israeli Restaurant Wave Hits the Village With This Sibling to Miznon

The latest from Eyal Shani has a listening bar with records for sale

https://ny.eater.com/2023/7/17/23796272/port-said-manhattan-opening-review

When Miznon opened in Chelsea Market in 2018, excited customers lined up to try the first U.S. location for the Tel Aviv-based restaurant from Eyal Shani. Sandwiches on pillow-soft pitas were the specialty of this Israeli self-service chain — where customers sat on bleachers waiting for their orders to be called. Largely vegetable-driven and mainly Mediterranean, the fillings ran to beet stew with tahini, wild mushrooms in spicy sauce, and a novel cheeseburger seared on one side and folded over on itself, as good as any smash burger in town.

In addition to its Upper West Side location and HaSalon that opened in Midtown West in 2019, Shani has brought another of his restaurants here: Named after the fifth largest city in Egypt, which sits at the mouth of the Suez Canal, Port Sa’id — which also opened in Tel Aviv, this time, in 2012 — offers a menu comparable to Miznon’s but more expensive, featuring vegetables, grains, grilled meats, and seafood with a Eastern Mediterranean flair. The 4,000-square-foot restaurant is located at 350 Hudson Street at the corner of King, a neighborhood that real estate agents are fond of calling Hudson Square.

The giant room is sparely furnished with many windows, its pillars plastered with blue tiles, and a long and lively bar along one side. Turntables and a record collection dubbed a listening bar fill an adjacent wall, looking like an audiophile’s living room from the 1960s, and the vinyl is for sale. Periodically, a DJ puts on a scratchy record of a singer warbling fada at high volume; the diners jump and then return to their food and drink. (It’s a collaboration among the restaurant, an online radio station, Teder, and the LA-based Sheep’s Clothing.)

A friend and I went early on a recent evening a few days after opening as rain threatened and Resy showed no reservations — and were able to talk our way in. We were seated in a loungey area near the front door, where we could see customers come and go, which included couples and families with small kids.

With most tables seeming to have ordered only a plate or two of food, Port Sa’id kicked off as drinking spot where you can also get a snack or two, but we set about ordering more extensively from the 30-item menu. It is attributed to North Minzon chef Victor Gothelf... (see link for full story)

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Port Sa’id, 88 King Street, New York, United States