Sentence examples for demanding diners from inspiring English sources

But because he was able to take a rare break from catering to demanding diners, he found himself with that rarest of luxuries in a New York kitchen.

The ups and downs of the stock market aside, there's still plenty of hungry money out there: demanding diners and restaurants eager to turn as many tables as possible in a night.

Recently, I read a blog post by Michael Baeur of the San Francisco Chronicle entitled "A bartender's dilemma: Mix cocktails or appease demanding diners?" I'm pretty sure Mr. Baeur wrote that article to be provocative, but I found it to be a touchstone on precisely what is wrong with the bar as it is being presented in today's restaurants.

A recent dinner of split pea soup (a $6 nightly special), roast duck ($18) and creme brulee ($5.95) would gladden the heart of even the most discriminating and demanding diner.

Colored-glass lanterns wash the interior with a warm, effulgent light, and the mauve shadows they cast seem to demand that diners try something out of the ordinary.

With the start of March and demands from diners for dramatic menu changes, it is difficult for chefs in New York to rely entirely on local produce as colder weather in the northeast results in shorter harvest periods for farmers.

The notion of hordes of diners demanding that the kitchen split portions seems spurious.

For diners demanding royal treatment, the restaurant Mezzanine is run by Gary Robinson, a former personal chef for Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.

A subsequent petition to save the diner garnered 900 names, and the Milford Preservation and Trust Board passed a non-binding resolution in 2000 demanding that the diner be preserved as an "endangered part of Americana".

With the sharks almost gone, Chinese diners are demanding manta rays and mobulid rays as ingredients for their expensive banquet stews.

Whether it's hostilely taking possession of an occupied diner booth, demanding free cupcakes whenever she pleases, flaunting her wealth in front of our monetarily humble heroines, or using and abusing love-struck Oleg at will, it's Sophie's world and we're all just living in it.