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Well, the red awning was the earlier place, closed a few years ago. Cannot recall the name. Very good food and a chef from Bouley or trained there or something.
The new place was the brownish kind of paneling front, if you visited more recently they may have created their own awning.
SO just reminded me, the earlier place was Casanis. He also said that is closed at least three years ago.
Time flies.
No, there is not a "French area," maybe because the French are so assimilated into NYC, so we only have places like Chinatown and Little India. However, I think there are some French ex-patriate groups that you can connect with.
However, why don't you wait until you're here, and first delve into NYC? Don't worry beforehand about missing France, and don't immediately fall back on French contacts. Give yourself a chance to know NYC first.
No, there is not a "French area," maybe because the French are so assimilated into NYC, so we only have places like Chinatown and Little India. However, I think there are some French ex-patriate groups that you can connect with.
However, why don't you wait until you're here, and first delve into NYC? Don't worry beforehand about missing France, and don't immediately fall back on French contacts. Give yourself a chance to know NYC first.
There is also what seems to be a good number of French families on the UES and Yorkville. Am always running into such in supermarkets including just this week helping a young Frenchman find something (his English description of what he wanted was lost on the Hispanic cashiers/clerks) but took me a few seconds to realize what he wanted and we found.
The ones Forest Hills Daddy hit on are dead-on. Another one is Bacchus--it has French owners and there were huge turnoust of French people when they were showing the French team's world cup games in the backyard.
The neighborhoods where you'll see and hear the most French is generally Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill area (where many of the restaurants mentioned are) as well as a younger contingent in the bougier parts of Williamsburg and Bushwick.
There is also what seems to be a good number of French families on the UES and Yorkville. Am always running into such in supermarkets including just this week helping a young Frenchman find something (his English description of what he wanted was lost on the Hispanic cashiers/clerks) but took me a few seconds to realize what he wanted and we found.
You're right, I didn't know that. But on the other hand, you don't hear New Yorkers say, "Hey, how about French food? Should we just go up to West Harlem and stroll until we find some place?"
Yorkville, of course, is traditionally German, not French.
On 77th and York, there is a cafe called Le Moulin a Cafe. It's always packed with parents of kids who go to the Lycee Francais across the street. But as I said to the OP, why did you come to NY only to seek out familiar French places? Try new places and things, go wild! Like the kids in the (awful) French movie Nous York. . .
Isn't there also a visible French expat presence in the Williamsburg area?
Edit: Nevermind, looks like OyCrumbler answered that question.
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