Lucien (restaurant)

{{Short description|French bistro in New York}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{use American English|date=December 2022}}

{{Infobox restaurant

| name = Lucien

| image = Lucien NYC.jpg

| image_caption = Lucien in December 2023

| established = {{start date and age|1998}}

| food-type = French bistro

| dress-code = Casual

| street-address = 14 1st Avenue

| city = New York City

| state = New York

| postcode = 10009

| country = United States

| coordinates = {{coord|40.72337|-73.98818|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| website = {{Official website|www.luciennyc.com}}

}}

Lucien is a French restaurant located on First Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Lucien was opened by Moroccan-born restaurateur Lucien Bahaj in 1998.{{cite news|url=https://www.documentjournal.com/2019/08/remembering-lucien-bahaj-creator-of-the-french-bistro-that-became-nycs-last-cultural-salon/|title=Remembering Lucien Bahaj—creator of the French bistro that became NYC's last cultural salon|first1=Clayton|last1=Patterson|work=Document Journal|date=2 August 2019|access-date=26 December 2022}} The menu includes traditional French fare inspired by Bahaj's upbringing in the South of France.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/30/dining/25-and-under-just-like-home-if-home-happens-to-be-in-france.html|title=$25 AND UNDER; Just Like Home, if Home Happens to Be in France|first1=Eric|last1=Asimov|work=The New York Times|date=30 December 1998|access-date=26 December 2022}}

Its clientele have included established celebrities through promotional collaboration with New York publicist Kaitlin Phillips; she has brought celebrities like Bella Hadid and Chloë Sevigny,{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/business/media/the-drunken-canal-media-nyc.html|title=They Had a Fun Pandemic. You Can Read About It in Print.|first1=Ben|last1=Smith|work=The New York Times|date=7 March 2021|access-date=26 December 2022}} and New York artists Jonas Mekas and Dash Snow, to the restaurant.{{cite news|url=https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/xwe83d/lucien-oral-history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823154818/https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/xwe83d/lucien-oral-history|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 23, 2019|title=An Oral History of Lucien, the New York Art World's Go-To Bistro|first1=Nate|last1=Freeman|work=Garage|date=12 August 2019|access-date=26 December 2022}}

Bahaj died in 2019, and today the restaurant's operations are handled by his son Zac.