The most important new restaurant in NYC history is Le Pavillon
NY Post
What’s the big deal about an expensive, 140-seat restaurant opening on the second floor of a Midtown office building?
Daniel Boulud’s Le Pavillon is only the most important new restaurant in New York City’s history. When it bows on Wednesday at One Vanderbilt, the soaring new skyscraper next to Grand Central Terminal, it will answer a question that’s crucial to the Big Apple’s post-pandemic destiny: Can Midtown’s indispensable adult dining scene be saved? Without it, the city’s and perhaps the world’s most important business district – where offices remain almost 80 percent empty – is doomed.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.