Chat Noir, Upper East Side Bistro, Closes After 11 Years: Report

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Upper East Side bistro Chat Noir will close after 11 years in business, reports said.

The French bistro decided to shut down after struggling to reopen following a January gas leak, its owner told Eater New York. Owner Suzanne Latapie decided after three months that working with the city to reopen the restaurant would be too costly.

"It is so horrible, I’ve tried everything," Latapie told Eater.

"It feels like a death in the family, but I just had to walk away."

The Upper East Side restaurant — located in a townhouse on East 66th Street between Madison and Fifth avenues — had its gas shut off days after the January leak, owners posted to the restaurant's Facebook page on Jan. 19. Both replacing the building's gas pipes and converting Chat Noir's kitchen to electricity proved too expensive to keep the bistro open, Eater New York reported.

Latapie will auction off the Chat Noir's inventory in order to pay the restaurant's vendors, Eater reported.

Read the full Eater New York story here.

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