Tomorrow the documentary "Florent: Queen of the Meat Market" opens at Cinema Village, offering an encyclopedic look at the beginning, middle and end of the restaurant.
Nothing does until you see, at the far end of the restaurant, a pizza oven clad in little metallic tiles that glint like sequins.
And with an open kitchen at the far end of the restaurant, you may choose to watch your order being prepared.
At the far end of the restaurant bar, an ice bed displays a seasonal selection of clams, oysters, lobsters, shrimp and Alaskan crab.
The end of his restaurant career came when he was called back from his honeymoon to deal with broken freezers, he said.
Occasionally, I would look through the little round window of the kitchen door and see the anorexic waitress carrying trays of coffee mugs from one end of the restaurant to the other.
At the far end of the restaurant, fresh fish is arranged around an open grill, a larger version of the kind of open fire over which his mother cooked everything.
Five Points, on Great Jones Street just off the Bowery in NoHo, has a menu of items cooked on a shiny charcoal rig set right on the sidewalk at one end of the restaurant's outdoor cafe.
The Redhead's justly acclaimed fried chicken, with its crunchy buttermilk batter and sidekick of outstanding corn bread ($16), kept us on the low end of the restaurant's $15- to $22-entree 22-entree range
Patricia Idrissi, a waitress, remembered that one had gone off to play a video machine at the one end of the restaurant while Atta and al-Shehri sat drinking and arguing.
