It's an ambitious place worth a well-timed visit By Phil Vettel Ah, the Chefs Dean Elicostas and Richard Kurian.
Lunches are always packed.
The after-5 cocktail crowd can be considerable. These are the times when you need reservations or need to arrive early for a good table. Just walk on in. Plenty of good seats available. That's pretty much how things were going on my visits to Rivers, an attractive, ambitious restaurant that's good enough to be more than a place you stop by on your way to someplace else.