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La Caravelle was a restaurant in New York City, specialising in French cuisine. It opened on September 21, 1960, at 33 West 55th Street in Manhattan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Classic That Always Looks to the Future )〕 The restaurant was established by Fred Decré and Robert Meyzen, with Roger Fessaguet as head chef, and took its name from the type of sailing ships Christopher Columbus sailed on his voyages to the New World. Like most European restaurants, ''La Caravelle'' had a menu that changed daily.〔 This made the restaurant popular with new customers and also brought them back regularly. Salvador Dalí, John Lindsay, Leland Hayward, Walter Cronkite and Dorothy Kilgallen often dined at the restaurant in its early years. President John F. Kennedy was especially fond of ''La Caravelle''s vichyssoise and chicken in champagne sauce, and he often requested them as "take out" orders to eat on the plane while traveling. In 1973, ''La Caravelle''s preparations for lunch were the subject of a short film, ''French Lunch''. Twenty years after its opening, chef Roger Fessaguet left the kitchen to become an owner with Meyzen due to the retirement of Fred Decré. In 1984, Robert Meyzen retired and Fessaguet and André Jammet took over ownership of the restaurant. The following year, a ''New York Magazine'' article cited it as one of the best restaurants in New York City, and mentioned that most guidebooks gave it their highest rating. Fessaguet retired in 1988, leaving ownership with Jammet and his wife. The Jammets redecorated ''La Caravelle'' in 1990, replacing the original red carpets and banquettes with a color scheme of green and peach. Artist Nina Duran was hired to create a small mural for the restaurant's foyer. The restaurant closed on May 22, 2004, despite garnering the James Beard Foundation's Most Outstanding Restaurant in the Country award in the same year. The name is now known for champagnes produced by the Jammets; the restaurant began serving them as its house brand in 1997. ==History== The restaurant was originally owned by Fred Decré and Robert Meyzen, with Roger Fessaguet as head chef. Decré and Meyzen, maîtres d’hôtel at ''Le Pavillon'', left there to open the restaurant in midtown Manhattan's Shoreham Hotel, hiring Fessaquet, who also worked at ''Le Pavillon'', as its first executive chef.〔 The restaurant's name was taken from the type of sailing ships Christopher Columbus sailed on his voyages to the New World and represented their hopes for a new beginning in the restaurant business with its opening.〔〔 Artist Jean Pagès was hired to create a series of murals depicting typical Parisian scenes for the space that was a speakeasy during the Prohibition era.〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=La Caravelle Murals )〕 Pagès added to the restaurant's murals in the 1960s; his work was accidentally altered by fellow artist Salvador Dalí when Dali scratched one of the murals with his cane while dining there with friends.〔〔 Like most European restaurants, ''La Caravelle'' had a menu that changed daily.〔 This made the restaurant popular with new customers and also brought them back regularly. Salvador Dalí, John Lindsay, Leland Hayward and Dorothy Kilgallen often dined at the restaurant in its early years.〔 〕 The journalist and broadcaster Walter Cronkite was a regular visitor to ''La Caravelle'' and enjoyed eating pike quenelles in lobster cream sauce. Other frequent visitors included the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Marlene Dietrich.〔 Joseph P. Kennedy had been a patron of ''Le Pavillon'', but after Decré and Meyzen opened their new restaurant, Kennedy switched his patronage to ''La Caravelle'', dining there regularly when in New York.〔〔 It became a popular place for the Kennedy family to visit.〔 〕〔 〕 Fessaguet chose and trained René Verdon to be chef at the White House when John F. Kennedy was elected president the year after opening. Verdon spent some weeks working with Fessaquet on the Kennedy family's favorite dishes.〔〔〔 〕 President Kennedy was especially fond of ''La Caravelle''s vichyssoise and chicken in champagne sauce. He often requested them as "take out" orders and would have them heated up on the plane as he traveled.〔〔〔 Decré and Meyzen renamed the dish on their menu; Poularde Maison Blanch then became "White House Chicken".〔 In 1964, the Kennedys held a family reunion at La Caravelle; one of the subjects of discussion at the reunion was said to be whether Robert F. Kennedy should ask to be nominated as vice president at the upcoming 1964 Democratic National Convention. Joseph P. Kennedy was in attendance and walked into the restaurant with the aid of a cane.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La Caravelle (New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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