The Mercer Kitchen provides room service throughout the hotel while the upper level café serves breakfast and lunch daily.

The question now is, Who will be the chef of the hotel's restaurant, the Mercer Kitchen?

So I went back to the bar at the Mercer Kitchen.

The Mercer Kitchen is still a work in progress.

Mercer Kitchen serves good food with nods to Asia, but it is dark and unforgivingly loud.

You need only visit Mercer Kitchen and Vong to doubt.

"Yes, I do need to introduce myself to more people," he said over lunch at the Mercer Kitchen.

Two glasses of wine in the lobby were $25.65; dinner at the Mercer Kitchen $113.76, and room service breakfast $64.48.

So it is no surprise to discover that his latest venture, Mercer Kitchen, has downtown down pat.

Textured and almost impossibly delicious, it epitomizes the Mercer Kitchen at its very best.