The likely, eventual closure of La Grenouille has some crying into their soufflés and questioning the future of French dining in the city. It’s the last of the city’s original “Le” and “La” ...
High-profile habitues of fabled Midtown French restaurant La Grenouille are chasing frogs’ legs and foie gras elsewhere due to a mysterious, near-three-months shutdown. Owner Philippe Masson shuttered ...
Last June, La Grenouille, one of the last remaining old-school French restaurants left in midtown (where an abundance of La and Le restaurants once flourished), shut down because of a gas leak. The ...
The closure of La Grenouille earlier this month represents the true finale to the era of the Ladies Who Lunch, when chic women clad in designer clothes would meet for lunch at New York restaurants ...
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It's the end of an era. La Grenouille, the iconic midtown Manhattan restaurant located on East 52nd Street, is closing this week. Philippe Masson, the owner and son of founders Charles and Gisèle ...
Fans of the iconic Upper East Side eatery La Grenouille are fearing for the restaurant’s future after Charles Masson, the power spot’s gentlemanly general manager, mysteriously left Friday and was ...
La Grenouille, widely acknowledged as the city’s prettiest restaurant for more than a half-century, closed last fall. But its gorgeous ghost is back at 3 E. 52nd Street, where frogs’ legs have given ...
Masson was working on a “younger, friskier little sister to La Grenouille.” Photo: Patrick McMullan Yesterday Grub Street reported that Charles Masson, the much-beloved manager who has piloted the ...
I'm sitting in the dining room at La Grenouille, staring at the least fashionable, most defiantly uncool dish in all of New York: the sole grillée, sauce moutarde. For one thing, it's classically ...
This once-tranquil Midtown shrine of formal French dining has a new feel, as Philippe Masson prowls the floor (and tabletops) in a vigorous jazz act. La Grenouille’s majority owner, Philippe Masson, ...