Spa also has a back room, a quieter, classier space where the minimum-bottle business is less strict and the music is devoted to rhythm and blues, trance and pop.
It's a classy, beautiful space – all high ceilings, glass tables and original art on the walls – housing around 4,000 books, with a strong selection of Scottish titles and an exceptional children's section, which has a bright mural.
Founders Den, the "clubhouse for entrepreneurs" (it's like a co-working space, but classier) based in San Francisco's startup-heavy SoMa neighborhood, just kicked off its third demo day.
More than one person at my table independently suggested that the waiters might have been faking their French accents in order to make the space appear classier.
Even now that I'm an adult with a decent resume and far less annoying taste in fashion, I still don't feel comfortable in "classy" or outwardly wealthy spaces, because I remember standing there in so many marble-countered kitchens feeling like a redneck charity case.
With its understated pale blue and off-white colour scheme and its decorative ironwork sculptures, the space itself is classy.
Dominic Solanke, on loan at Vitesse Arnhem from Chelsea and making his England debut, stood out in that respect and almost found space with a classy backheel.
We also peeked into the hotel to inquire how much dinner might cost (425 kroner, about $72; not even close), and chatted up the manager, Knut-Arne Bredal-Thorsen, who gave us a tour of its classy rooms, old-school common spaces (complete with Victrolas and fjord views) and a surprise: a space dedicated to the former Vice President Walter Mondale.
A closet was removed for more living space, the bathroom has classy original tiles and the co-op is on a high floor with good light.
