NOW Magazine Condo developer to take over Le Sélect Bistro The long-running French bistro has sold the property and business to Allied Properties, which is looking for a new operator By Kevin Ritchie Long-running French bistro Le Sélect is in “new hands” – those of a real estate developer. The restaurant’s owners announced on Instagram on February 17 that Allied Properties has taken over the reins of the upscale restaurant, which closed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. “As the bills piled up and the centimes started to run short, we asked ourselves: are we ready to enlist for another fight from the trenches?” they wrote.