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Architect Kieter Chan has designed multimillion dollar homes for Pritzkers and Kennedys, but if there’s one project he’s always wanted to complete, it’s this French-provincial restaurant, which was spearheaded by his late father but was put on hold when his father passed away from cancer. “I wanted it to embody what my dad wanted,” the architect and co-owner says, “a spot a that people can associate good things with.” The restaurant’s kooky-rustic vibe (black chandelier from Murano, patterned walls) and upscale menu (braised lamb shoulder, duck confit salad) has earned quick comparisons to another chic Lower East Side spot, Allen & Delancey. But there’s no doubt that its name—French slang for “brothel” and meant to evoke “rich food and absinthe and drugs,” as Chan says—is uniquely its own. 

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