Once featured on Guy Fieri's down and dirty TV show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, it serves generous portions – in dog bowls.
Like a futuristic lazy susan for your living room, this superswank coffee table not only swivels for effortless hors d'oeuvre passing, but allows TV-transfixed diners to adjust the height of one of its two surface areas from cocktail to dining height.
As Mr. Wen delivered his lengthy report, broadcast nationally and watched on countless TV sets in diners and shops here in Guangzhou, the mood at construction sites and factory districts seemed more downbeat than usual.
At Gourmet Plaza Bistro, where the décor includes old TVs and typewriters, diners can sample home-cooked pechuga ricotta, a Colombian-Mediterranean hybrid, as well as tasty crepes.
In the battle for my attention, though, it was reality that won out, with my number-one top TV fave being Mystery Diners and Restaurant Stakeout.
Over the last few weeks, the London restaurant Meza has been hosting a MasterChef pop-up, with former contestants from the TV show cooking for diners at a cost of £49 for three courses.
In the American-style Shorty's diner, the TV shows the football scores on Sky.
Other newspaper, magazine and TV ads use rock climbers, diners and a shopper in motion to promote its mobile banking, its ubiquitous cash machines and its customer rewards.
There's another Tom's Restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which has been around since the 1940s, and was made famous by the Suzanne Vega song "Tom's Diner" and as the exterior shots of Monk's Diner on the TV show Seinfeld.
At which diner, memorable for its TV series; and in which city, famous for its siege?
