"Gehad Hadidi purchased 50-year-old Midtown French bistro La Bonne Soup from the Picot family in 2019, who had been at the helm after Jean-Paul Picot, its founder, retired in the early 2000s. Under Hadidi’s watch, Pete Wells critic of the New York Times has said that the restaurant demonstrates that the “spirit of French cooking might be the strongest” here among Midtown’s “haute-cuisine” offerings." - Emma Orlow
