Le Veau d'Or

It opened in 1937 and spent the better part of a century as the French bistro New Yorkers were sentimental about. Then it closed. For five years it sat dark on East 60th Street, and the Upper East Side quietly accepted that this was simply what happens.Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr reopened it in 2024, and the pedigree behind that sentence is the reason it worked. These are the men behind Balthazar, Frenchette and Le Rock. Montreal-born Nasr worked with the legendary Michel Bras before arriving in…