That was my immediate thought when I learned Le Colonial, the fancypants Vietnamese restaurant from New York, would open a branch of its mini-chain in the glossy new River Oaks District complex. Four ...

A 'canceled' restaurant in San Francisco has shut for good. Le Colonial, which had been open near Union Square since 1998, served its last customers on September 1. The restaurant and its food paid ...

As if Fifth Avenue South couldn’t get any more fun, it will with the newest outpost of Le Colonial. As a (very minor and junior) member of the PR firm that helped open the original restaurant in 1993 ...

Dining, particularly fine dining, is a form of escapism. Like a movie or theatrical performance, when the lights are turned down, we put aside reality and engage with the show. For a full experience, ...

A group of Chinese employees who were fired from swank Midtown French-Vietnamese restaurant Le Colonial are suing their former employer for discrimination and retaliation, alleging that their bosses ...

Can Michael Kang pump life into the location once occupied by the hip Le Colonial French-Vietnamese restaurant and lounge in West Hollywood? He thinks so. For the past 17 years, the chef has operated ...

When one of the grand dames of shelter magazines anoints your restaurant among the world’s 20 most beautiful, how do you top that? For Le Colonial’s partners Rick Wahlstadt and Joe King, you up the ...

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Le Colonial is coming in August. That’s the latest on the upscale French-Vietnamese restaurant that plans to open a 100-seat restaurant in the River Oaks District, according to a release. The ...

In 2017, he wrote simply that the restaurant “evokes a tropical French oasis in Vietnam during the 1920s ... and deserves to be as popular today as it was when it was new and trendy nearly 20 years ...

Houston has the third-largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. That makes Houston seem like prime territory for upscale French-Vietnamese concept, Le Colonial, 4444 Westheimer, G-140. It’s ...