One waiter brings crystal flutes of a crisp rose Champagne.
Pizzeria Mozza ranks among the best pizzerias in the United States — its crisp, risen, wood-fired pizzas are unlike any particular Italian style, but the crust is good enough to eat even without squash blossoms and burrata.
At the front, lording it over the "estate" part, is an impressive Victorian building, crisp white, rising from the Parkland Terrace, where visitors devour cream teas.
Desserts include a dense, intensely caramel-flavored flan, sitting on a pool of syrup with two crisp wafers rising like antennae, and pumpkin fritters ($6.50), like golf ball-size spheres of rich pumpkin pie, coated with cinnamon and allspice.
Plates of crisp, sliced rose apples appeared for dessert.
The crisp sounds now rising from the cafeteria's corner, that haunting take on "The Man I Love," were so distinctive that Mr. Bannon sent cellphone recordings to his childhood friend Allen Farmelo, now a music producer in New York.
The Kamikaze crab cocktail was not as spicy as it sounds: A mix of crab, avocado, wasabi, cucumber and tomato arrived in a martini glass, with crisp tortilla spears rising from it.
His cucumber salad, for example, is nearly as tall as it is wide, with lotus crisps slanting and rising upward like the spires of a Gaudí church.
The concept sport-utility wears handsome, clean lines with a strongly horizontal grille and a crisp crease that rises along the side of the body before evaporating behind the rear window.
The days of crisp white suits and singers rising from their stools at the key change are long gone, but the demand for five guys with clean hair and middling vocal abilities is seemingly inexhaustible.
