NYC's Coach House owner Leon Lianides dies at 81

Nation's Restaurant News, June 15, 1998

Lianides had been in declining health ever since a near-fatal traffic accident in 1991. He was forced to close the restaurant - built in an 1850s-era coach house that belonged to retail baron John Wanamaker - in 1994 as a result of his health.

An engineer by training who briefly worked in the advertising industry, Lianides was a self-taught restaurateur and chef who enjoyed a celebrated foodservice career that included a four-star review from The New York Times. The Coach House also was one of 10 inaugural inductees into the NRN Hall of Fame in 1980.

Lianides was known as an exacting taskmaster with an astute eye for style and detail who elevated American cuisine to the realm of fine dining.

He is survived by his wife, Aphrodite.

In an interview with NRN after the restaurant closed, she said: "I might have been his wife, but that restaurant was his love. Even though I only saw him one day a week [Monday], we had a great marriage."

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