Restaurant Review: Eulalie in TriBeCa - The New York Times
This new place in TriBeCa, a successor to the Simone uptown, offers old-fashioned values and an old-fashioned way of taking reservations. By Pete Wells In 2014, when I had my first meal at the Simone, you could have described it as slightly behind the times. The pace was languid. The menus were handwritten. The chef, Chip Smith, molded regional American flavors over a frame of French technique. The dining room, on the ground floor of an Upper East Side townhouse, was about as loud as an Alpine forest during a light snowfall. Online, the Simone made almost no noise at all. You really had to search for its website, and it wasn’t listed on any of the reservation sites. If you wanted to book a table, you had to pick up the phone and call Tina Vaughn, who ran the restaurant with Chip, her partner in life and business. She would write your name in a hardcover appointment book. The couple continued running the Simone this way until 2022, when the restaurant, in financial straits, was closed b
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