Saga Is Starting Fresh

Sixty-three stories up, the restaurant gets a remodel and a new menu from chef Charlie Mitchell.

- TAMMIE TECLEMARIAM

WHEN CHARLIE MITCHELL worked at Clover Hill, the 20-seat Brooklyn Heights tasting room where he earned his first Michelin star and was named the best chef in New York by the James Beard Foundation, his days began and ended in the kitchen. When he arrived at Saga (70 Pine St.; saga-nyc.com), a skyscraper-topping gastronomy penthouse in Fidi, his calendar began to fill up: “Branding meetings, logo meetings, design meetings, plate meetings, new-vision meetings,” he says. “It’s a large company.”