Clean, he found a perfect fit as chef of Brasserie Les Halles in downtown Manhattan.

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More than rain on a Sunday afternoon with a good book, more than the first bite of a T-bone steak at Les Halles.

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Where, except New York, would a curator put a metro station in a museum of modern art, and what restaurant could be more self-consciously Parisian than Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles in Manhattan?

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In the late 1700s, mass graves in the Les Halles district, such as those in the now closed Saints Innocents Cemetery, were overcrowded with improperly disposed of bodies , creating unsanitary conditions that led to the spread of disease.

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