Warm welcome and farewell from the affable host and owner.
Ricardo Llorca, a composer, was the evening's affable host.
And Mr. Zinsser is the most affable host imaginable.
Mr. Suzuki is also an affable host who remembers customers' names and favorite dishes.
According to the affable host, Waleed al Jahmi — who owns the restaurant with his brother, Abdulghani, the chef — you begin by taking a scoop with your fingers.
Playing the affable host as if he were at home, Rubinstein started at 6 45 one summer evening and, pleased with the results, kept going.
The affable host, the soprano Patricia Racette, tried to lessen the tension with a series of bad soprano jokes: "What's the difference between a soprano and a terrorist?
Mr. Bush, the affable host, obliged, just as two days earlier he had seemed to oblige a different guest, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, at his Texas ranch.
Besides conducting, Mr. Manahan was the evening's affable host, introducing the singers, describing the music and generally trying to entice newcomers to check out the City Opera.
La Chalana's affable host, Eric – who, with his curly black hair and earring, looked rather like a film star himself – was having the time of his life serving up tapas and beer by the trayful.
The winners were announced by the tenor Lawrence Brownlee, the program's affable host, and the soprano Susanna Phillips, the guest artist, who had sung "Dove sono," from Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro," as the judges were in their final deliberations.
