The Cherchemonster

Danyelle Freeman (AKA Restaurant Girl) loves her first meal at Keith McNally's Cherche Midi on the Bowery. The takeaway: "Au revoir Pulino's. I think we can all agree that McNally's forte is French. New restaurants with a lot of hype always seem buzzy for the first few months. But Cherche Midi already feels like a neighborhood institution, a Balthazar of the Bowery so to speak." [RG]