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12-03-2003, 12:48 PM
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| |  Top french restaurant in NYC?
What do you think is the top french restaurant? I'm on a quest to try all the top french restaurants in NYC and this year I'm trying to find something new. I've been to Le Bernardin, La Grenouille, Daniel, and Le Perigord. Of all these restaurants, I give La Grenouille the best rating. Also, the restaurant I'm looking for is classical, authentic french food. No fusion thing please. So what's your take on the best french restaurant? |
12-04-2003, 07:11 PM
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To me it would depend on if you were looking for cuisine bourgeois (home cooking) or haute cuisine.
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12-05-2003, 03:15 PM
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Chez Bernard, on West Broadway I believe a few blocks up from Canal.
Very laid-back, simple cuisine. Bernard runs the kitchen with a few helpers while there is one FOH woman (daughter?). I'm assuming it's still there although it's been a few years since we moved from the the Big City and last ate there.
It's on our "must-do" list the next time we go back.
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12-06-2003, 09:25 AM
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Chez Bernard is long gone. The windows have been papered over for many months now. 
My list for good, mostly bourgeois, non-fusion-y food:
Artisanal
Balthazar
Capsouto Frères
D'Artagnan
Fleur de Sel
Gascogne
La Petite Auberge (can be inconsistent, though)
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12-06-2003, 09:31 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by Suzanne
[b]Chez Bernard is long gone. The windows have been papered over for many months now. | Rats!
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12-10-2003, 02:08 PM
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Thanks for all your inputs. |
01-06-2004, 05:26 PM
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| | Chez Josephine
I had a wonderful dinner there many many years ago. Is it still there in NYC?
Was owned by one of Jospehine Bakers's sons, if my old memory serves me.
Thanks!
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01-07-2004, 12:51 PM
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Chez Josephine is indeed still here.
According to William Grimes in his farewell article last week, Atelier is the best NEW French restaurant in the city. |
06-10-2004, 12:49 AM
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| |  Call me crazy but...
...I actually really, really like L'Ecole. It's the French Culinary Institute's restaurant and it is amazing AND inexpensive.
on B'way corner of either Grand or Prince.... |
06-12-2004, 03:54 PM
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No, you're not crazy.  It's good, but a diner has to realize that the cooks are students, just learning. I've had some excellent dishes there (great potato pancake with smoked salmon, excellent frites  ), and some clinkers (tough puff pastry )
Chloe, I hope you got to some before they closed. |
07-04-2004, 01:58 PM
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I would also agree that l'ecole (B'way&Grand) has excellent cuisine at phenomenal prices - regardless of the fact that the boh staff are students.
I will entertain that Danny Meyer's Eleven Madison Park is one of the better premier french restaurants in the city with an excellent Sunday Brunch.
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12-04-2006, 03:08 PM
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| | If you travel a little further down, to Brooklyn...
You'll find a nice restaurant there, Grille de Paris. Check out their web site first, it's grilledeparis dot com |
12-05-2006, 09:15 AM
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True: Brooklyn and Queens have some very good restaurants. Maybe not on a par with the old-school classics in Manhattan, but excellent. Tournesol in Long Island City is very well thought-of, and there are places in Park Slope and Fort Greene and on Smith Street that might qualify. In fact, there are many good new French restaurants!
And I see that Grille de Paris is kosher. Very cool, and very necessary! 
And sad to say, but from my earlier list, D'Artagnan is also gone. All the others are still going strong, though.
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