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Creepies Opens in Chicago
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Odette Opens Inside the National Gallery Singapore
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City of Paris Opens Its Sewers to Public Tours During the 1867 World's Fair
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Hayward Opens in Carlton
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City of Paris Inaugurates La Canopée at Les Halles
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Café Gerbeaud Opens on Vörösmarty Square
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US Embassy Opens in Nine Elms, London
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London's Thames Tideway 'Super Sewer' Officially Opens
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The French Laundry Opens in Yountville

Sally Schmitt opened the restaurant in a stone building in Napa Valley in 1978 and built her menus around local, seasonal produce. Thomas Keller bought it in 1994 and it now holds three Michelin stars.

Sally Schmitt opened The French Laundry in Yountville in 1978, designing her menus around local, seasonal ingredients as a pioneer of California cuisine. [S]
Thomas Keller has been chef and owner since 1994. [S]
The MICHELIN Guide lists it as a Three Stars: Exceptional cuisine restaurant in the 2026 Guide USA, at the $$$$ price band. [1]
Keller opened Per Se, an East Coast counterpart, in Manhattan in February 2004. [S]
In December 2014, while closed for renovations, its wine cellar was robbed of an estimated $500,000 of wine; it reopened on 7 April 2015 after demolition of several buildings on the site. [S]

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The French Laundry – Yountville - a MICHELIN Guide Restaurant
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Creepies Opens in Chicago
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Starts 08/31/2025ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE1.1 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as August 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]
David and Anna Posey open a French bistro with a Chicago accent on West Randolph Street, run day to day by chef de cuisine Tayler Ploshehanski.
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Starts 02/28/2026ESTIMATED 90% CONFIDENCE207 days agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as February 2026, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]
Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha, of Ha's Snack Bar, open a French bistro seasoned by Ha's Vietnamese heritage on Eldridge Street.
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Starts 03/31/2025ESTIMATED 75% CONFIDENCE1.5 years agoThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as March 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.^[1]
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Starts 04/03/1840CONFIRMED 75% CONFIDENCE186.5 years agoThe article's infobox gives the exact day, 3 April 1840, with a citation.^[1]
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Odette Opens Inside the National Gallery Singapore
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Starts 12/31/2015ESTIMATED 70% CONFIDENCE10.7 years agoWikipedia^[1] gives the year only - "Founded in 2015 by chef Julien Royer" - with no month or day, so the pin takes that year's last day.
Julien Royer opened Odette in 2015 in the National Gallery Singapore, the former Supreme Court and City Hall converted into a museum, and named it after his grandmother. It became the highest-ranked restaurant in Singapore on the Asia's 50 Best list and one of the city's three-star addresses, cooking a French menu built around named producers.
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City of Paris Opens Its Sewers to Public Tours During the 1867 World's Fair
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Hayward Opens in Carlton
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Chef-owner Kari Shaughnessy opens a polished, seasonal restaurant in Carlton, a town of about 2,100 in Oregon's wine country.
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Starts 04/05/2016CONFIRMED 80% CONFIDENCE10.5 years agoFrench outlets Batiactu^[3] and Ingélux, and Wikipedia's^[2] French edition, date the Canopée's public inauguration to April 5, 2016.
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