One Day—and One Night—in the Kitchen at Les Halles
From 2000: “The people who will be coming tonight and tomorrow night to Les Halles, a restaurant on Park Avenue South where I work as the chef, aren’t like the people who come during the week,” Anthony Bourdain writes.
I learn that last night my grill man called one of the waiters a cocksucker and pounded his fist on his cutting board in a 'menacing way' when five diners came in at three minutes before midnight closing.