Le Cirque Restaurateur Sirio Maccioni Has Died - Eater NY
"Larger-than-life restaurateur Sirio Maccioni — the man behind seminal French fine dining restaurant Le Cirque, and one of New York’s grandest maitre d’s — has died. He was 88. Maccioni immigrated to New York from Italy and worked at restaurants before opening Le Cirque in 1974. The restaurant became known as one of the city’s top fine dining restaurants, and some of New York’s most acclaimed chefs spent time in its kitchen, including Daniel Boulud, David Bouley, Geoffrey Zakarian, Jacques Torres, and Michael Lomonaco. In 2013, Esquire magazine wrote that 'no restaurant in America, perhaps the world, has graduated so many renowned chefs as Le Cirque.' But the food was almost secondary to the charisma of Maccioni, who built an empire and attracted the most powerful and famous people in New York to his dining room." - Serena Dai
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