The nighttime clientele — one table of 12 — varies as much as the day's: locals, Philadelphians, chef friends.
A restaurant served restaurants while offering its discerning clientele small tables, private rooms and flexible mealtimes.
The café's clientele turned over; the tables were set for dinner, decorated with lit candles, menus in place; the staff even switched off the WiFi, in order to chase out the most tenacious of the afternoon Googlers.
At the spacious, golden-hued City Winery, Ms. Osborne sang bluesy soft rock in a crimson gown, and the sold-out crowd — many of whom looked as though they could well have been the parents of the Knitting Factory clientele — sat comfortably at tables and ordered from a list of 500 wines.
Twenty minutes up the road was the Las Dunas bar, a thatched-roof, airy bar with a pool table and a clientele of surfers, windsurfers and beach bums.
And indeed, the evidence is everywhere in the bar -- in the drinks (cosmopolitans, of course) as in the decor (the regal-purple pool table) and the clientele, which on this night includes Larry Johnson, the New York Knicks' power forward, who is engaged in, no kidding, a serious game of chess.
The table-hogging regular clientele of those chic and snooty restaurants has vamoosed to Provence and Tuscany for the summer, so call and reserve a table for six with the Eurotrash dominatrix on the other end of the line who's never even let you say your name before, then -- this is the key -- don't show up.
Wood floor, large tables, upper- crust clientele.
8. Malaysian Rasa Sayang ++ (718) 424-9054 75-19 Broadway, near Roosevelt Avenue Jackson Heights, Queens $ Cash only Malaysian Rasa Sayang is a modest restaurant with a mostly Asian clientele at its handful of tables, awaiting the fresh and fiery blend of Malay, Chinese and Indian cuisines, with dashes of Thai and even Portuguese.
A little further down is a Tuscan restaurant run by a real Italian who sits at his own table and eyes the clientele.
