Waiting on Warhol

Indochine

430 Lafayette St. at Astor Place
212-505-5111

Opened: 1984

That was then: Opened by star restaurateur Brian McNally, Indochine—with its French-Vietnamese menu and tropical design scheme—became an instant destination for the international jet set. The restaurant’s opening night doubled as an art show for Julian Schnabel that attracted boldface names like Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and made it one of the decade’s most popular spots with regulars like Calvin Klein, Mick Jagger and Cindy Crawford. In the ‘90s, the space below the restaurant functioned as a nightclub called Undochine, which gave the same glitzy clientele a place to hang out after polishing off dinner.

Pictured: Warhol at Indochine's opening night–turned–Schnabel exhibit