Apocalypse: Thumbs Up to Charbon

November 05, 2002 Apocalypse: The New Yorker gives thumbs-up to Cafe Charbon (Orchard/Stanton corner). Loyal Below 14th readers know this is on our banned restaurant list, a list created to ostracize those establishments deemed so detrimental to the neighborhood that even $1 spent there would be a moral failure of the highest order. In this case, the faux French architectural design (the "trio of cinematic storefronts," as the New Yorker puts it) is so wrong-headed that it makes us weep.