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Les Halles (French pronunciation: [le al] ⓘ; 'The Halls') was Paris' central fresh food market. It last operated on 12 January 1973 [ 1 ] and was replaced by an underground shopping centre and a park.
Brasserie Les Halles was a French-brasserie-style restaurant located on 15 John Street (between Broadway & Nassau Street; in the Financial District) in Manhattan, New York City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Previous locations were on Park Avenue South in Manhattan, in Tokyo , Miami, and Washington, D.C. Author and television host Anthony Bourdain was the ...
Bourdain remained an executive chef there for many years and even when no longer formally employed at Les Halles, he maintained a relationship with the restaurant, which described him in January 2014 as their "chef at large". [35] Les Halles closed in 2017 after filing for bankruptcy. [36]
Les Halles: the station was reconstructed in 1977 a few dozen metres towards the east (parallel to the old station) in order to allow for a better connection with ...
The original station on 21 April 1908 as part of the first section of the line from Châtelet to Porte de Clignancourt to serve Les Halles (old markets). The station was rebuilt and put into service on 3 October 1977 about ten metres further east to interchange with the new Châtelet–Les Halles RER station on RER A, RER B and RER D which opened on 9 December 1977.
The Les Halles quarter surrounds the former Les Halles marketplace, today a shopping mall centre for a commercial district whose boutiques are geared to tourism. Les Halles is a Metro and RER hub for transport, connecting all suburban regions around the capital. One landmark in the region is the 1976-built Centre Georges Pompidou. Built in a ...
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The Plaza del Vapor met a similar fate in 1959 as the Paris food market Les Halles would meet in 1971. Les Halles, unable to compete in the new market economy and in need of massive repairs, the colorful ambiance once associated with the bustling area of merchant stalls, disappeared altogether when Les Halles was dismantled; the wholesale ...