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Indochine's Forty-Second Year Belongs to the People Who Kept It Running

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The Lafayette Street dining room reopened its doors this week not for new guests but for old ones, gathering decades of servers, hosts, and staff past and present to mark forty-two years in business. The evening closed with cake and a runway of dance, a fitting send-off for a restaurant that has always understood hospitality as a long relationship, not a single seating.

With reporting from Curbed.

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