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| - I've eaten here for both lunch and happy hour on several occasions, and I've yet to be disappointed.
Lunch:
The lunches I've had here are always fun. The atmosphere is like someone grabbed the platonic ideal of an art deco restaurant interior, fused it with a mid-mod sensibility and brought it to 2012. Also, it is pretty quiet, so it's great if you want to talk to your lunchmate/date.
The food at lunch is always very tasty and borderline experimental. I had a soup there last time... some kind of white spicy stuff... that was so flavorful yet light that I couldn't quite comprehend what I was tasting.
Happy Hour:
Yes. One of the best in the city. If you are downtown and don't want to sit in traffic to get home on the parkway i HIGHLY recommend going to Elements- although do keep it to one an hour, please? Drinking and Driving is SO not-cool.
The beers on tap are all $3. That includes Guinness. Did you hear me? That. Includes. Guinness. I put it to you to find a cheaper glass of the good stuff downtown and I'll meet you there at 5.
Also, the pizzas are all $5 during happy hour. Now, this may not sound like a GREAT deal for a personal pizza, but trust me- it is. The pizzas are all hand-made, and i think they are brick-oven-fired. They taste amazing, and where else can you get a pie with Prosciutto on it? you'd spend $5 on just that much of the amazing Italian meat at DeLallo's... another place that deserves a great review, come to think of it.
Also, the seating at the bar is right out of friggin' Mad Men. Low, leather (pleather? who cares) booths, sitting along amazingly HUGE windows that overlook the city and Liberty & Fifth Aves. Have two or three sitting by these windows and you might forget you're not in New York. One of the BEST ground-level views of the City... if not THE best.
If you want to throw a few back at the end of the day before you hop the bus or the T, you cannot miss at Elements.
Do it.
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