Le Pavillon was a New York City restaurant that defined French food in the United States from 1941 to 1966.[1]
Le Pavillon
Restaurant information
Established
1941
City
New York City
State
New York
Country
United States
The restaurant started as the Le Restaurant du Pavillon de France at the 1939 New York World's Fair run by Henri Soulé (1904–1966). During this time, Charles Masson Sr., co-founder of New York City's famed restaurant La Grenouille had worked under Henri Soulé in Le Pavillon.[2] When World War II began, Soulé and the Pavillon chef Pierre Franey stayed in the United States as war refugees.
In his autobiography,[6]Jacques Pépin describes how he was first employed at Le Pavilion after emigrating to the US in 1959. He found that Franey and the rest of the staff were underpaid and treated poorly by Soulé, who insisted that he was barely making ends meet, even though he would offer complimentary meals and wine to a large number of celebrity guests. When Pépin and others organized a protest, he found himself physically threatened by organized-crime goons. However, there was soon an exodus of the staff (Franey and Pépin moved to Howard Johnson's) and the restaurant never recovered. Soulé's other faux pas was allowing paparazzi to disturb the Kennedy family (who were regular customers) and their staffers during John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign: when the Kennedy team, which was dining at the restaurant, asked the paparazzi to leave, Soulé insisted that only he had the right, as owner, to determine who entered and left the restaurant, and stated that, even before the election, "the Kennedys already think they are running the country." (Pépin was offered the job of White House chef after the election, but declined.)
^Whitaker, Jan (2022-01-30). "Famous in its day: Le Pavillon". Restaurant-ing through history. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
^Gray, Christopher (2001-04-22). "Streetscapes/3 East 52nd Street; An 1871 Building With a Plaque Honoring a Visitor". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
^Prial, Frank J. (1972-09-26). "Pavillon Closes Doors As a Dining Era Fades". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
^"Henri Soule of Le Pavillon Dies; Had Wide Influence on French Cuisine in City and U.S." The New York Times. 1966-01-28. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-19.
^. Time. February 4, 1966. Archived from the original on January 14, 2009.
^Pépin, Jacques (April 10, 2003). The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (First ed.). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN0618197370.
^Fabricant, Florence (May 18, 2021). "Daniel Boulud's Le Pavillon Opens". The New York Times.
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