French Restaurants

The restaurateurs behind Frenchette and Le Rock have face-lifted and spit-shined the city’s oldest surviving French restaurant while remaining obsessed with its history. 

Chefs of the highest pedigree lend expertise to the pursuit of small daily pleasures, such as jambon-beurre and a maritozzo pastry.

Dressed crab, bison au poivre, and a twist on baba au rhum are just a few of the many offerings at the buzzy new Rockefeller Center restaurant from the chefs behind Tribeca’s Frenchette.

The joke has worn off for the scene that grew around the restaurant Dimes in the twenty-tens, as the Parisian wine bar Le Dive, the sushi bar Time, and the Nine Orchard hotel’s Corner Bar move in.

Nostalgia and Paul Freedman’s “Ten Restaurants That Changed America.”