La Goulue Reopens After 8-Year Hiatus, Report Says

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Famed Upper East Side French restaurant La Goulue has reopened after closing eight years ago, the New York Times first reported.

The restaurant's owner Jean Denoyer re-created the Michelin-starred restaurant on East 61st Street between Madison and Park avenues, the Times reported. When La Goulue closed in 2009, Denoyer preserved all of its fixtures in a storage unit.

Denoyer had been trying to reopen the restaurant since it closed in 2009. When news broke that he restaurant would be closing, the owner told the Times that finding a new location was proving difficult.

"We are aggressively looking for a new spot within three or four blocks of La Goulue," Denoyer told the Times in 2009. "Some landlords have been utterly spoiled in the last decade, and they don’t want to acknowledge that there is a recession."

La Goulue's former chef, Antoine Camin, who has been working at Denoyer's other restaurant Orsay, will return to his former post at La Goulue. Much of the restaurant's original menu will be offered at the new location, the Times reported.

Read the New York Times' article here.

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