Despite the reports in the British tabloids of late nights at Annabel's and Tramp, Ms. Ecclestone describes herself as a "homebody" who favors dinner with friends and family to the club scene.
While the fish is not favored at the dinner table – it is both bony and oily — in processed form it provides the nutrients for fertilizer, animal feed at factory farms and omega-rich diet supplements.
For a health-conscious dinner favored by locals, try Soul Tavern's "functional food meets food for the soul". The vegetarian gastropub incorporates the Five Elements wood, fire, earth, metal, water into its menu to balance the body, mind and spirit.
On the contrary, it's the kind of place that favors long dinners, evening strolls and a good night's sleep.
In a faint echo of places like Las Vegas, parlor bosses sometimes treat their favored customers to dinners, spa visits and sessions in karaoke bars.
The back room, with fireplace, is favored by fashionables for dinner or late-night music and drinks.
These calls have come in the middle of the night, at the crack of dawn, even at the dinner hour favored by telemarketers.
These days, stand-up buffets are favored over five-course dinners, and turtle soup and caviar have been replaced with smoked salmon and pigs-in-blankets from Costco.
Respondents particularly favored reservations for business dinners, and well over half of the respondents would not consider a restaurant for a business meal if they could not make a reservation.
When favored tenants order a takeout dinner, Mr. Bradley sometimes sends up a waiter to do the full honors, with table linen, restaurant china and wine service.
