The 25th Hour of Florent Morellet

http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/47227/
5/25/2008

"Morellet removed the map not as a gesture of mourning but as a precaution. "I was worried," he told me over a recent dinner at the restaurant, "that it would be stolen." Florent has a fervid following that includes (but is not limited to) neighborhood stalwarts, fashion icons, queer activists, famous drag performers, eccentric night owls, club kids, the offspring of club kids, maverick politicians, burlesque dancers, and celebrities ranging from Lou Reed to Sarah Jessica Parker—some of whom, after learning of the restaurant's impending closure, have developed a nostalgia-induced kleptomania."