Lahiere's: Closed forever ever
Of all Princeton's restaurants, Lahiere's is the one that stands out the most as a Princeton institution. It's the restaurant you go to if you've got a date to impress--or the one you wait to go to until your parents are in town and can foot the bill.Oh. Were you planning on that? Well, sorry. Because after 91 years, Lahiere's is now closed, forever. Forever ever.Here is a list of things you will never be able to do ever again:
- You will never be able to enjoy the lovely bread baskets.
- You will never be able to walk down Witherspoon on a late moonlit night and see a dimly lit, glowing dining room packed with wealthy, well-dressed old people/students and their visiting parents.
- You will never be able to taste Lahiere's delicious French contemporary American vaguely Asian fusion (wasabi mashed potatoes?) delights. And the creme brulee! (!!!!!!)
- You will never be able to look at the corner of the restaurant where Albert Einstein's portrait hangs and know that the man himself took his lunch there everyday.
- You will never sit in the cage behind the restaurant's entrance, at a University dinner with extremely fancy professors who will tell you to order whatever you want, really, are you sure you don't want to try the foie gras?
A new restaurant will open in its place. Thoughts on what kind of food it'll be? What kind of restaurant is Nassau Street missing?