One Bryant Park, a three-part Japanese dining destination, opens Thursday in the Bank of America Tower

A big new Japanese restaurant is opening in Midtown. One Bryant Park, a roughly 10,000-square-foot dining complex at the base of the Bank of America Tower, debuts Thursday, Oct. 15, in the space that used to be Aureole, Eater NY reported. Three separate restaurants will share the floor.

The flagship

The namesake restaurant is led by culinary director Tadaaki Ishizaki, previously culinary director at the two-Michelin-star Odo, and executive chef Shuji Furukawa, who led the Michelin-starred Restaurant Yuu, according to Eater. The restaurant describes its cooking as "New Japanese," a contemporary take built around kaiseki, the seasonal multicourse meal, with menus that change with Japan's traditional microseasons, according to its website. Eater says the menu threads French technique through Japanese ingredients, with both a la carte and tasting options.

The kaiseki menus run five courses for $175 per person or 11 courses for $265, Grub Street reported. Each includes a bread course from in-house baker Daichi Ebato, who is building loaves around Japanese ingredients: a kabocha brioche, a koji petit baguette, a scallion-poppy seed cube and a loaf baked in an individual clay vessel with Hokkaido brown mochi rice, served with koji butter. Diners leave with a gift box that includes an anpan and a black-and-white melon pan nodding to the New York cookie, according to Grub Street.

The drinks list will carry more than 500 sake and French wine selections, along with Japanese whisky and cocktails, Eater reported. The restaurant comes from restaurateur KwangHo Lee's Listen & Feel Hospitality, with desserts by pastry chef Allen Cheung, according to its publicist, Hall PR.

Two counters inside

• Kumiko Room: a 14-seat omakase sushi counter from Edomae sushi chef Yoshihiko Kousaka, whose earlier restaurants Jewel Bako and Kosaka earned Michelin stars. It also opens Thursday, Eater said.
• Kappo Sono: chef Chikara Sono, formerly of the Michelin-starred Kyo Ya, is relocating his 10-seat kaiseki restaurant, previously based in the East Village, to the space. It is expected to open in mid-November, Eater reported.

The two counters operate as independent restaurants with their own chefs and reservations, according to Hall PR.

One Bryant Park, 135 W. 42nd St. (at Sixth Avenue), Midtown. Opens Oct. 15. Kaiseki menus $175 and $265.