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  Special Issue
    NYC
        
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        November 19, 2022
    
  
    Portfolio by
    James Emmerman
  
 
          
           
  Zachary Bahaj
    
      Restaurateur
    
    
    Try to get a reservation at Lucien, the French restaurant on the Lower East Side, and the person on the other end of the phone will likely hang up. Yet, since the late Lucien Bahaj opened the space, in 1998, people—the art-world crowd, movie stars, Julia Fox—have come to love the restaurant’s edge, in large part thanks to the charisma of Lucien’s son Zachary, who now runs the bistro.
