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Article: Seeing the light at lamplit Abajour; Good food, prices, with a few burnouts.(Brief Article)
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- Crain's New York Business
- Article date:
- October 30, 2000
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A contemporary american bistro with a French name meaning lamp shade, Abajour best resembles a sophisticated home in the tropics. Does all that fit together? Yes, it does, in a good example of ``If you don't succeed at first, try something else.'' Tony and Kathleen Iwanzcuk-he a veteran of Restaurant Associates, she a seasoned paralegal-now bask in the soft, romantic setting and warm reception of Abajour. They know well the feeling of rejection after an earlier essay in the edible, called Tony McGregor's, baffled neighbors, who thought it a sports bar. Tony and Kathleen shifted gears, put European architect John Pierre Heim on the case and chef Jonathan Crean (Kittle ...