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KAIYŌ Rooftop lives up to the hype

Virginia Miller
The Bold Italic
Published in
5 min readMar 4, 2022

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KAIYO Rooftop’s beet-cured salmon tiradito. (Photo: Courtesy of Virginia Miller)

On a crisp, clear, wind-less February night, we bypassed the line to get in with a reservation at brand-new KAIYŌ Rooftop atop the Hyatt Place Hotel. It was clear immediately from the line down the sidewalk to the bustling, Latin music-tinged party on the rooftop that this is already one of the hottest…

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Founding The Perfect Spot in 2007, Virginia is World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ Chairperson, judging & writing/editor at 60+ publications on dining & drink globally