Cheers to Le CouCou Restaurant in New York City!
Le Coucou
Now seems a perfect time to showcase, celebrate and illuminate some of our favorite restaurants in the city we live and love. With the closing of restaurants all over the globe due to the Covid-19 virus, it's put the food industry in peril. We’ve been through disasters before in New York City- we lived through the tragedies of the infamous September 11, 2001. My husband worked at Merrill Lynch in the adjoining building to the two towers, and for months after 9/11, he worked daily in a hotel overlooking Ground Zero wearing a mask to protect his lungs. We did not leave this city we love, and we stayed and raised our children here. But, these current events, are testing our resilience in a more severe way.
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There are too many things I love about New York City to list. However, the melding of people, the fast paced, yet heart of the people is what I love most. Every day, I walk home from work stopping at the green grocer on the corner to pick up a bouquet of flowers, then the butcher, and all the small shops on the way. I relish in the almost old-fashioned neighborhood feel of living here. Of course there are many things in life to relish, but fine dining is something we New Yorkers participate in on a regular basis.
When this nightmare is over and our restaurants are back up and running, our first stop is to many of our neighborhood haunts (which I’ll be posting about soon), however, to celebrate with vigor we will certainly book an evening of fine French dining at Le Coucou. When opening the restaurant, Chef Daniel Rose collaborated with restaurateur Stephen Starr (designed by The Roman and Williams team) while inspired by modern European fine gastronomy. A perfectly edited space, the restaurant is poised to showcase classical French cuisine.
Chef Rose has a long history of French cooking, which began during his time in France attending the American University of Paris. He learned to cook in Lyon at the Institut Bocuse cooking school. In 2015, Daniel opened his second restaurant in Paris restaurant, La Bourse et La Vie. We are fortunate to have restaurants like Le Coucou here in New York City. I hope you'll book a dinner soon to celebrate us getting through these hard times together, and properly support restaurants all over the world in getting back to business as usual serving up delicious food.
Happy Nesting
XO Tamara
