Is the restaurant Le Cirque in New York City or is it in another big city?”
150 E 58th St New York, NY 10022 (212) 303-7788 We forgot to wear our pink ties,” muttered my Uncle Frank as we settled down to dinner at the latest iteration of Le Cirque, a great, polished, cruise ship of a restaurant that opened almost two months ago in a grandly ceremonial new venue in the Bloomberg tower in midtown. My Uncle Frank has been dining around New York in a concerted and vigorous manner for more than six decades, and until now it had been a point of some pride with him that he had never set foot in any of the Le Cirque restaurants, neither the original one nor its splashy successor in the Villard mansions nor any of the rapidly multiplying Le Cirque outlets in Las Vegas or Mexico. Uncle Frank was a regular at the Oyster Bar, a connoisseur of earthy, offbeat specialties like pig’s knuckles and stewed tripe. He’d visited the old Colony restaurant, where Le Cirque’s famous owner, Sirio Maccioni, was for years the maître d’, but claimed never to have actually laid eyes on Ma
