This cozy, Early American nook, with its brick and beam walls, flickering fireplace, candles, glistening coppertop bar, lace curtains, broad board, hard-pine floors and soft music is a self-contained restaurant with its own menu and entrance.
"It leaves you with an appetite, a rod with which to beat your own back," he said carefully, seated straight-spined before a flickering fireplace in a hotel here.
On Friday and Saturday evenings, the inn opens its doors to nonguests, who can dine on creative Arizona-accented cuisine under a courtyard bower or by a flickering fireplace made of large river rocks, depending on the season.
By a flickering fireplace, Mr. Jacques -- balding and bearded with blue eyes etched deeply by laugh lines -- will offer running commentary for a 26-part animated Redwall series produced by Nelvana of Canada and Alphanim of France.
At Commune a slick makeover of what used to be Cena has transformed a cool, gray, almost cerebral restaurant into something younger, hipper and much, much louder, with red lacquered tables up front, booths along the side and a strange flickering fireplace in back.
The intimate lobby showcases shelves of books amid modern light fixtures and a flickering fireplace where guests can gather for impromptu meetings.
