Restaurant Review

Impersonal storefronts, traffic, and noise are characteristic on this block of West 14th Street. But look carefully and you'll find a cozy, authentic French restaurant that’s easy on the wallet. Jeanne & Gaston is one of those little gems of a restaurant that you want to tell everyone about but keep to yourself at the same time.

Robert Dixon is a thin-crust kind of guy. So much so, he dismisses deep-dish pizzas. “To me, deep-dish is not even a pizza. It’s a pie of some sort,” he said.

This grand structure hadsalso been used as a rubber factory, a raincoat factory during World War I, a pharmaceutical factory, and finally renovated as a restaurant.

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