12. 27 Standard ** [Rating: two stars] (212) 447-7733 116 East 27th Street Manhattan $$ All major cards Few restaurants offer such an easy blend of casual ambience and professional service as 27 Standard, an airy, amiably sprawling restaurant with a jazz club, the Jazz Standard, downstairs.
Mojo Grill's ambience makes that easy to do.
In the car, it may be easier to appreciate the lifelike ambience that surround technology brings to music.
But it's not so easy to find that traditional mob ambience.
There are touches of quaintness — a glass of wine comes to the table in a milk quartino, water is poured from recycled whiskey bottles, and candles flicker inside canning jars — but the china is resolutely modern, and the over-all ambience is one of easy, improvisational elegance.
An easy-to-read menu lets you select an ambience setting from Vivid, Soft, Warm, Intense, Cool, Brighter, Darker to Monochrome, while a Lighting setting allows users to select from Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten light, Fluorescent light or Sunset.
If you're not going to play Pebble, it's still easy to soak in some of the ambience at Roy's (2700 Seventeen Mile Drive, Pebble Beach; 831-647-7423; www.roysrestaurant.com).
Plot is easy to feed, but how does one nourish ambience, mood, atmospherics?
Pinewood walls give it a warm ambience, and the ceramic floors offer easy cleanup.
Morning Try breakfast at Over Easy, a nice cafe with just the right ambience on Yonge Street.
