Daniel and David Barber and David's wife, Laureen, partners in the Blue Hill in New York, were chosen to create the restaurant.
Oskar Melzer, a German-Jewish club owner, and Paul Mogg, a Berlin-based D.J. from England, were inspired by a craving to create the restaurant.
"This is how Fox operates," said Ben Silverman, the former agent who represented numerous early reality hits before switching to producing, where he helped create "The Restaurant" with Mr. Burnett.
McGrath and his production designer re-created the restaurant at Troublemaker Studios in Austin, where much of the film was shot.
Ms. LeRoy created the restaurant's lucrative gift shop and was a dedicated collaborator in the assemblage of its down-the-rabbit-hole design elements with Warner, Tavern's Mad Hatter.
Through Agate's memory, we also get to meet the two less-than-fraternal Italians, Abel Giandellini and Mario Gallati, who created the restaurant, and also some of the stars, such as Noël Coward and Alice Delysia, who suavely patronised it – and in the latter's case even gave it its name.
Andres, who was named the James Beard Foundation's 2011 outstanding chef, has created the restaurant as an extension of the National Archives' exhibition, What's Cooking, Uncle Sam?
The servers offered the hand-blown crystal glasses, known for their power to greatly improve a wines mouth-feel, to thank Bohr, who created the restaurant's wine list, for enhancing their tips by boosting wine sales.
The 30-year-old company was founded by the entrepreneur Julian Metcalfe, who went on to create the Itsu restaurant chain and Metcalfe's Skinny popcorn.
An initial conversation with the restaurant's press agent yielded the following: "Just as de Tocqueville wrote the definitive work on American democracy, so the owners wanted to create the definitive restaurant".
