Les Halles
Americannoun
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I was hungry, though, so I headed to Les Halles, the stunning steel-and-glass-covered market built in the beginning of the 20th century.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021
At the documentary’s beginning — in footage shot before chef Anthony Bourdain of New York’s Les Halles became the best-selling author of “Kitchen Confidential” and a globe-traveling superstar TV personality — the fish is missing.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 14, 2021
But as Paris spread it took to burying the majority of its bodies in cemeteries within its bounds, notably in the main Cemetery of Saints-Innocents, near the central marketplace of Les Halles.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2019
Toward the book’s end, Bourdain recalls the time he traveled to Japan to help train the chefs at the new Les Halles Tokyo.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2018
I used to love to get up early and go down to "Les Halles," the French Covent Garden, and come back with literally armfuls of roses of all shades of delicate pink, white, and cream.
From Fanny Goes to War by Washington, Pat Beauchamp
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