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Once a celebrity hot spot, Midtown's French fine dining institution has finally croaked.
La Grenouille (French for "The Frog") was a French restaurant at 3 East 52nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [1] [2] Founded in 1962 by former Henri Soulé apprentice Charles Masson Sr. and his wife Gisèle, later with sons Philippe and Charles, La Grenouille became a location of choice among New York, U.S., and eventually international ...
The iconic French restaurant opened in 1962.
Lafayette was a French restaurant in New York City located at 202 East 50th Street. It was established in 1965 and closed in the late 1970s. W magazine referred to it in 1972, as one of "Les Six, the last bastions of grand luxe dining in New York." The other five named were La Grenouille, La Caravelle, La Côte Basque, Quo Vadis, and Lutèce ...
Charles Masson Sr. (May 1914 Belfort - February 4, 1975 Manhattan) was the founder, in 1962, [1] and owner of Le Grenouille. Lawrence Van Gelder wrote in the New York Times that Masson "belonged to that aristocracy of New York restaurateurs who trace their professional lineage to the arrival here in 1939 of Henri Soulé".
Soltner, born in Thann, France in 1932, emigrated to the United States in 1961 to become the first chef at Andre Surmain's French fine dining temple Lutèce in New York City.
15 East (also known as 15 East at Tocqueville) [1] [2] is a French-inspired Japanese restaurant at 1 East 15th Street in Union Square, Manhattan, New York City. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The restaurant has received a Michelin star, but lost it in 2016.
Pete Wells placed Le Coucou in fifty-eighth place in his 2023 ranking of the hundred best restaurants in New York City. [9] The restaurant won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best New Restaurant in 2017. [10]