Back in March, this reporter was dismayed to discover that charming restaurateur Toney Edwards had finally lost his long, drawn-out legal fight to protect his beloved French bistro Le Madeleine from the wrecking ball.
Landlord Mark Scharfman was reportedly planning to tear down the single-story structure on West 43rd Street and replace Read More
"The irony – business is very strong. Strongest ever!" said Toney Edwards.
When The Observer passed by Mr. Edwards’s embattled Le Madeleine bistro on West 43rd Street last week, the joint was packed.
This week? Tumbleweeds. Another French bistro bites the dust. This reporter feels bad for both Mr. Edwards and Read More
A bartender put it bluntly— “We’ve gotten signatures, but it doesn’t matter; they don’t care,” she said—as a trio of glum patrons turned away from the zinc-topped bar and altogether exited the embattled Hell’s Kitchen eatery Le Madeleine on Sunday night.
The cozy, candle-lit French bistro’s usually appetizing smells of grilled quail and duck Read More
Hollywood screenwriter Bobby Moresco spoke in Dickensian terms about growing up Irish in Hell’s Kitchen back in the mob-ruled pre-condo era. “For me, it was the greatest life on the face of the earth,” he told The Observer. “It turned into the worst life on the face of the earth.”
Mr. Moresco’s wonderfully tragic young Read More
After enduring back-to-back defeats in court, embattled restaurateur Toney Edwards remains as “determined as ever,” he said, to protect his hallowed Hell’s Kitchen cookery, Le Madeleine, from a developer’s wrecking ball.
But if that doesn’t work out, the stick-to-it-ive Texas-born owner of the longstanding French-style bistro on West 43rd Street might have to settle for Read More
“These roots go down into very rich soil,” said Toney Edwards, owner of Le Madeleine restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen.
Mr. Edwards was referring to the tall ficus tree he had planted as a sapling nearly a quarter-century ago, in the garden-seating section of his then-fledgling French bistro on 43rd Street near Ninth Avenue.
But he Read More
“These roots go down into very rich soil,” said Toney Edwards, owner of Le Madeleine restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen.
Mr. Edwards was referring to the tall ficus tree he had planted as a sapling nearly a quarter-century ago, in the garden-seating section of his then-fledgling French bistro on 43rd Street near Ninth Avenue.
New retail column tells Le Madeliene’s story of survival.
Toney Edwards, owner of Le Madeliene restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen, credits the endurance of both his ficus and his restaurant in large part to the goings-on underground. Enriched by the outhouses of the ancient residents of the adjacent, 19th-century tenement building on the corner, this Read More
