Fine dining is a restaurant experience that is typically more sophisticated, special, and expensive than at a typical restaurant. The décor of such restaurants features higher-quality materials, with establishments having certain rules of dining which visitors are generally expected to follow, sometimes including a dress code .
6-870: Le B is a fine dining restaurant in New York City . Owned and run by Angie Mar , it opened in September 2023, replacing the French restaurant Les Trois Chevaux (also owned by Mar). Angie Mar owned and ran The Beatrice Inn in New York City from 2016 till December 2020, when high rent and the COVID-19 pandemic led to the restaurant's closure. Mar initially announced that the restaurant would be reopening right next door at West 12th Street in Greenwich Village and renamed The Beatrice. However, at
12-579: A chandelier from the now-demolished Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn. The updated menu now includes dishes that reflect both Mar's Seattle roots and French influences, such as Pacific Dungeness crab Wellington, bird’s nest soup with foie gras, and a fancy take on French onion dip. Fine dining Fine dining establishments are sometimes called white-tablecloth restaurants , because they traditionally featured table service by servers, at tables covered by white tablecloths. The tablecloths came to symbolize
18-539: The Grand Hotel of Monte Carlo. This became the first restaurant to offer "luxury accommodations and gourmet dining all under one roof". In France, fine dining became yet another way of aping the aristocracy . Other luxury hotels soon developed across Europe. The first fine dining restaurants in the United States operated in New York City, such as Delmonico's in the 19th century. The restaurant contained
24-423: The experience. The use of white tablecloths eventually became less fashionable, but the service and upscale ambiance remained. The precursor to fine dining started around the 1780s when health-conscious bouillon shops evolved into grand "Parisian restaurants like Trois Frères and La Grande Taverne de Londres". In France, César Ritz , a Swiss developer, partnered with prominent French chef Auguste Escoffier at
30-422: The restaurant's name. Les Trois Chevaux opened on July 8, 2021. In September 2023, Angie Mar closed Les Trois Chevaux and revamped the restaurant, reopening it as Le B on September 22, 2023. Le B, which captures the lively spirit of The Beatrice Inn, does away with the dress code and focuses on Continental American cuisine with an added French touch. The interior also underwent changes, featuring dark blue walls and
36-467: The start of 2021, she decided to open a completely new restaurant instead, named Les Trois Chevaux or "The Three Horses". While The Beatrice Inn was a steakhouse , Les Trois Chevaux did not have steak on the menu and focused on French cuisine instead. According to Mar herself, she had been inspired by "great French restaurants of eras past" including La Côte Basque and Lutèce . The menu was developed in consultation with Jacques Pépin , who also suggested
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