Bob Puccini, a San Francisco-based restaurant designer who spends most of the year traveling worldwide on business, has found that power-dining happens very differently and is often "much more leisurely and drawn out" in other parts of the world.
Before its rescue by Mr. Dine, the building, in a historic quadrant of Greenwich Village popular with artists like Jasper Johns and Julian Lethbridge, was a garage and plumbing supplies shop; after the owner had made an unsuccessful attempt to turn it into a restaurant, Mr. Dine happened along and bought it.
In Tokyo, for example, power dining typically happens behind closed doors, in tatami-mat rooms, like those found at Hamadaya, a traditional "ryotei" haute cuisine restaurant and one of nine Tokyo restaurants to receive three Michelin stars.
So I, like most impatient saucers, wind up squeezing as hard as I possibly can until the blockage gives, and the pressurized sauce comes splattering out all over my new designer hoodie, to say nothing of whatever expensive nonsense my dining companions happen to be wearing.
It's carefully considered, unfussy dining that just happens to be vegetarian.
Tokyo Station You need to think of Tokyo Station less as a train station and more of a shopping and dining complex that happens to have trains (and gazillions of people) moving through it.
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In the taxi home is where you think the game of Come Dine with Me happens, but I am here to tell you that it doesn't.
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.
Two of my regular dining partners, as it happens, are completely sold on Pirate's Booty, and when I ate out recently with both of them at the same time, they could not shut up about it.
As it happens I dined there with the man who would succeed me in the critic's job, Sam Sifton.
