Inner courtyard

YAO (Wall Street)

RESTAURANTS • First Person

I didn’t expect to enter YAO, an elegant Cantonese restaurant that opened earlier this year, through a micro-lobby of a Courtyard by Marriott, but vertical ascension works in Hong Kong and Tokyo, so why not in the (aggressively vertical) Financial District? And anyway, YAO is a tenant of the hotel, not an F&B supplier; there’s …