Joe Allen, NYC theater district restaurant icon, dead at 87
Allen told The Post of Pacino in 2012.The owner’s modest gathering of friends fast evolved into an empire, with Joe Allens popping up in Miami Beach, Ogunquit, Maine, London and Paris. The French outpost, which opened in Les Halles in 1972 and now operates under new ownership, was a cause célèbre in the press at the time for being the first to export the American hamburger to fickle France.