Sixty-three floors above the Financial District, Saga keeps two Michelin stars and a view to match — but its soul now belongs to Charlie Mitchell. The restaurant's founder, James Kent, died unexpectedly in 2024; Mitchell, his protégé and at 33 the first Black chef in New York to win a Michelin star, took the helm and reopened it as equal parts homage and evolution. A James Beard Best Chef and Eleven Madison Park alum, he folds French rigor into something more personal — his Detroit upbringing, his grandmother's Southern cooking, a love of Japanese seafood — cornbread crowned with caviar, scallops in consommé. The meal still closes with Moroccan tea and a maamoul cookie, a ritual kept from Kent. Theater and skyline are part of the draw; the cooking is what earns the stars.