Stephen Starr's two-decade Chelsea Market anchor opened in 2006 in a 16,000-square-foot Christian Liaigre-designed grand dining room — chandelier-heavy, dim-lit, oriental-flourish vocabulary — and outlasted the era's eatertainment shakeout on the strength of the room itself. The Pan-Asian program leans Chinese (dim sum, whole Peking duck, lobster egg rolls, Cantonese spring rolls) with broader Asian-fusion supports, and a specialty cocktail bar + lounge programs the room as a 20-year-sustained scene-restaurant rather than a chef-driven destination. Credentials are room-driven legacy: Frank Bruni's 1-star NYT review during the 2006 opening era, sustained Time Out + Infatuation engagement, no current Michelin or Eater Essential. Stephen Starr's NYC portfolio extends further (Pastis Meatpacking, Le Coucou Howard Street) at registers absent from this catalog. For Stephen Starr's Chelsea Market scene-room at 20 years — Liaigre design substance and sustained anchor status earn the inclusion where credential trail doesn't.