OK, the restaurant dome, behind groovy triangular doors, was so cold we had to dine wearing snow jackets, hats and gloves, but there's fun in that, especially if you've just spent two days eating leftovers and Bombay Bad Boys.
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There's even a capitol dome situated atop the restaurant — called "Capitol Q" — a symbol of the restaurant's self-appointed status as the BBQ capital of the state.
The cover showed King Kong ripping the dome from a Haussmannian restaurant palace with a look of utter satisfaction as he eats the bourgeois diners inside with an enormous silver spoon.
Beneath the dome four or five restaurants line one wall, and tables are scattered among upright lamps that feel like streetlights.
The couple expressed no dismay at the virtually nonstop construction and a village base area made almost entirely of temporary Sprung tents -- massive canvas-wall structures called domes, that house restaurants, bars and ski services until a permanent village is built in the next few years.
The arched restaurant, formerly the Dome, has Guastavino tilework with contemporary decoration by Tony Chi.
Back in the '80s, National Geographic did a tour of great barbecue joints and declared the Skylight Inn the capital of American barbecue, so they went ahead and put a capitol dome on top of the restaurant, which doesn't even have a skylight — nothing about it makes sense.
I used a 500-degree oven and cast iron pan in place of the restaurant's custom dome ovens, which chef John Adler keeps humming 24-7, and the pizza was the best I've ever made at home.
The dome, a $1.3 billion entertainment-shopping-restaurant complex that dominates the east London landscape, resembles a giant upside-down wok.
