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Article: Grand Hotel Dining: Can Plaza Athenee Keep a Secret?(Arts&Entertainment)(Review)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2001
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Byline: Moira Hodgson
"Actually, it's rather nice that it's so quiet," said my companion one afternoon after the only other customers in the dining room had left. "It makes me feel pleasantly sleepy and like taking a nap."
We had just finished a lavish lunch in the newly refurbished restaurant at the Hotel Plaza Athenee, so he could have headed right upstairs. Formerly known as Le Regence, it has reopened as Arabelle after a $2 million renovation-complete with a feng shui practitioner to make sure the vibes are right and a new menu that runs the gamut from "heirloom tomatoes: levels 1-8" to surf 'n' turf. I had forgotten about Le Regence, an ornate, Old ...