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[ david speaking french ] when i was younger, i ate here with my grandparents and my parents. >> man: oh, yeah. >> man: well, that's older restaurant in town, it's open since 1956. >> anthony: classic, un-ironic cuisine ancienne, meaning dishes you haven't seen since, like, forever. a hipster-free zone of french continental ocean liner classics, such as caesar salad, tossed fresh to order tableside. and beef tartare, also prepared tableside, as one must. shrimp cocktail. not a deconstructed shrimp cocktail, mind you. a shrimp cocktail. the way jesus wants you to eat them. all served by a dedic...

Abraham. ♪ the french may have lost that one, but some things french have stayed firm, unbowed, resiliently unchanged by trends or history. le continental is the kind of place about which i am unreservedly sentimental. [ david speaking french ] when i was younger, i ate here with my grandparents and my parents. >> man: oh, yeah. >> man: well, that's older restaurant in town, it's open since 1956. >> anthony: classic, un-ironic cuisine ancienne, meaning dishes you haven't seen since, like, forever. a hipster-free zone of french continental ocean liner classics, such as caesar salad, tossed fr...

Shrimp cocktail. not a deconstructed shrimp cocktail, mind you. a shrimp cocktail. the way jesus wants you to eat them. all served by a dedicated professional. in -- at culinary school, we were taught this. we had real customers as your final class. we'd have to do the -- peel the fruits tableside, all that, which inevitably would fly off the fork and land in somebody's soup. i was so bad at it, too. i'd start with the orange. run into trouble. i'd be, "i'll be right back." behind the screen, i'm, like, with my teeth, stripping the thing. at least once a day, one of the students would set them...

You haven't seen since, like, forever. a hipster-free zone of french continental ocean liner classics, such as caesar salad, tossed fresh to order tableside. and beef tartare, also prepared tableside, as one must. shrimp cocktail. not a deconstructed shrimp cocktail, mind you. a shrimp cocktail. the way jesus wants you to eat them. all served by a dedicated professional. in -- at culinary school, we were taught this. we had real customers as your final class. we'd have to do the -- peel the fruits tableside, all that, which inevitably would fly off the fork and land in somebody's soup. i was s...

♪ the french may have lost that one, but some things french have stayed firm, unbowed, resiliently unchanged by trends or history. le continental is the kind of place about which i am unreservedly sentimental. [ david speaking french ] >> when i was younger, i ate here with my grandparents and my parents. >> man: oh, yeah. >> man: well, that's older restaurant in town, it's open since 1956. >> anthony: classic, un-ironic cuisine ancienne, meaning dishes you haven't seen since, like, forever. a hipster-free zone of french continental ocean liner classics, such as caesar salad, tossed fresh to...