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A Look Inside Le Diplomate

The garden room off the main dining area opens onto a 60-seat patio and allows plenty of sunshine through a glass roof. Photograph by Jeff Elkins.

Comfort bistro dishes include roast chicken with pommes purée (mashed potatoes) and this hanger steak frites with parsley-flecked butter. Photograph by Jeff Elkins.

A Mediterranean-inspired dish of grilled loupe de mer with black olive tapenade and a salad of roasted red peppers and gigante beans. Photograph by Jeff Elkins.

Parisian power booths: four semicircular seating areas just off the main entrance. Photograph by Jeff Elkins.

The airy main dining room is flanked by a 30-seat zinc bar, picked by Chateau Marmont designer Shawn Hausman from a market in Paris. Photograph by Jeff Elkins.

Fresh baguettes and cranberry-walnut and whole-wheat boules greet you at the door. The breads will also be available for carryout. Photograph by Jeff Elkins.

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