If I want to tell you in English about a dinner with my neighbor, I may not have to mention the neighbor's sex, but I do have to tell you something about the timing of the event: I have to decide whether we dined, have been dining, are dining, will be dining and so on.
Brochures are so busy vaunting the high-energy activities offered (snorkeling lessons, Internet at sea, gambling, fine dining, fast dining, 24-hour dining, movies, indoor spin cycling, beauty contests, pool aerobics, art auctions, live Broadway-style shows etc).
The new furnishings were sleek, in white leather or glass: A Brueton sectional sofa, for $9,500; a glass dining table, dining chairs and armchairs from M2L.
Q. Do you have purchases you regret? A. I would say my biggest regret is something I didn't buy: a Lane Acclaim dining set, dining table, eight chairs, a credenza, a china cabinet, all for $375.
"This will be a comfortable restaurant, less of a party and more about dining, but dining that can even be for special occasions without having to get dressed up," he said.
Other famous adages include his self-description as "more dined against than dining" and his claim that Noel Annan's feelings ran "only sin deep".
Locals fill the ground floor and basement dining rooms and dine at tightly arranged tables covered in red-and-white plaid tablecloths.
Arrosto 25 South Regent Street Port Chester (914) 939-2727 arrostorestaurant.com WORTH IT THE SPACE The entrance through a charming covered sidewalk (for summer dining) leads to a dining area flanked by a roomy bar and work station, beyond which is a vast open dining space.
8 30 p.m. 2) SEAFOOD EXTRAVAGANZA It may be called the Reading Room (7 Newport Drive; 207-288-3351; butharborinn.com/dining.html), but dining in a rotunda that overlooks the harbor feels more like eating on a ship than in a library.
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Sticky, puddled and covered in 26 partly empty, smelly plastic cups, the table sat in the dining room — though dining would rarely happen there — in a rambling house here on the Jersey Shore.
