This casual but still classy room, with sculptured, stuffed and carved giraffes, diverse bright china and exceptional three-course, $19.95 fixed-price dinner from Sunday through Friday ($25.95 on Saturdays), is less stuffy and far more economical than its predecessors.
Business travellers may also check in at the classy 260-room Leela Palace New Delhi near the Presidential Palace, with its oversized 51sqm guestrooms, or the modern 507-room Hyatt Regency Delhi, one of the largest five-star hotels in town.
GOOD ATMOSPHERE Crisp, classy dining room with warm yellow walls, dark wood trim and subdued lighting.
The Red Inn (15 Commercial Street; 508-487-7334), a stately 200-year-old lodge on Provincetown Bay, has fireplaces, wide-plank wood floors and a classy dining room that overlooks the water.
This is known online as the Scunthorpe problem, after the town in Britain whose residents were initially unable to register with AOL because its name contained an obscenity.The Beaver Club, a classy dining room in Montreal, and the SS Beaver, a replica of an 1835 steamship operating in British Columbia, remain unperturbed by any ambiguity.
It is here where you'll find The Vine at Bridges, a classy tasting room that draws an attractive crowd of locals and tourists, and features a wide variety of local and international labels.
A member of the CNC (Centre National Cinématographique), all of the movies are shown on 35mm film, and the theatre boasts a classy viewing room with 90 old-school leather seats (each cleaned every night, Laroche assured me).
But the classy, inviting front room (or Dizzy Room) is equally popular with its liver-testing martini list and appetizer menus constructed from old gatefold LP covers.
Famous tea room blintzes and caviar parfait just may be the classiest way to ring in the New Year.
STAY: Interlaken Inn, Lake Placid; Tucked on a side street uphill from Mirror Lake, the Interlaken is that great blend of casual elegance, phenomenal food, unsurpassed bar and comfortably classy antique-stuffed rooms that don't cost an arm and a leg, even "in season".
