. "Le Pavillon (Henri Soul\u00E9 restaurant)"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1123414050"^^ . . . . . "40.76100158691406"^^ . "4334"^^ . . . "-73.9739990234375"^^ . . . "Le Pavillon was a New York City restaurant that defined French food in the United States from 1941 to 1966. The restaurant started as the Le Restaurant du Pavillon de France at the 1939 New York World's Fair run by Henri Soul\u00E9 (1904\u20131966). When World War II began, Soul\u00E9 and the Pavillon chef Pierre Franey stayed in the United States as war refugees. The restaurant formally opened on October 15, 1941, at 5 East 55th Street on Fifth Avenue, across the street from the St. Regis New York. In 1957, Le Pavillon moved to the Ritz Tower on Park Avenue and 57th Street. Soul\u00E9 died in 1966, and Le Pavillon closed in 1971. In his autobiography, Jacques P\u00E9pin describes how he was first employed at Le Pavilion after emigrating to the US in 1959. He found that Franey and the rest of the staff were underpaid and treated poorly by Soul\u00E9, who insisted that he was barely making ends meet, even though he would offer complimentary meals and wine to a large number of celebrity guests. When P\u00E9pin and others organized a protest, he found himself physically threatened by organized-crime goons. However, there was soon an exodus of the staff (Franey and P\u00E9pin moved to Howard Johnson's) and the restaurant never recovered. Soul\u00E9's other faux pas was allowing paparazzi to disturb the Kennedy family (who were regular customers) and their staffers during John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign: when the Kennedy team, which was dining at the restaurant, asked the paparazzi to leave, Soul\u00E9 insisted that only he had the right, as owner, to determine who entered and left the restaurant, and stated that, even before the election, \"the Kennedys already think they are running the country.\" (P\u00E9pin was offered the job of White House chef after the election, but declined.) Daniel Boulud opened a restaurant with the same name in 2021, in homage to Soul\u00E9's restaurant."@en . "POINT(-73.973999023438 40.761001586914)"^^ . . "Le Pavillon was a New York City restaurant that defined French food in the United States from 1941 to 1966. The restaurant started as the Le Restaurant du Pavillon de France at the 1939 New York World's Fair run by Henri Soul\u00E9 (1904\u20131966). When World War II began, Soul\u00E9 and the Pavillon chef Pierre Franey stayed in the United States as war refugees. Daniel Boulud opened a restaurant with the same name in 2021, in homage to Soul\u00E9's restaurant."@en . . . . . "40.761 -73.974" . . . "5501276"^^ . . . . . . . . . .