But on the inside they are equipped with a dining area — a U-shaped table, benches along the walls that can seat 12 — and an en suite kitchen where some jolly old boiler can fry up bacon sarnies and stew tea strong enough to trot morbidly obese Mickey on.
If you wander inside into a dining room, you may fear that the collection of plump china pots and porcelain cats may threaten to collapse the walls.
Sal e Pepe 97 South Main Street Newtown (203) 426-0805 salepeperestaurant.com WORTH IT THE SPACE Two large dining rooms and a dining alcove inside a small strip mall, with carpeting, colorful walls and a different set of salt and pepper (sal e pepe) shakers on every table.
Inside is a dining room furnished in what you might call rec-room gothic, with a low ceiling, a worn red carpet, framed beer posters and hanging light fixtures that appear to have been assembled from many barn sales: a bugle with a band saw, a scythe with antlers and a violin.
It's dark and shouty inside, with spartan dining rooms spread out over three small floors.
Inside, the dining rooms display ancient terracotta fragments, an appropriate decor choice considering Flavio al Velavevodetto is built into the city's most historic landfill, a pile of ancient amphorae.
Inside, the dining area is deliciously – and daringly – underlit, while the walls are charcoal grey.
Brooks followed The Producers with another broad comedy, The Twelve Chairs (1970), that was set in newly communist Russia and concerned a trove of jewels hidden inside a dining-chair leg.
Inside Bargemusic, a dining and performance space moored in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Historic Districts Council, a preservation group, was bestowing its first Mickey Murphy Award on Evelyn Strouse, longtime leader of the Union Square Community Coalition and a civic fighter in Ms. Murphy's mold.
Arena offers both outside and inside dining.
The outdoor terrace is popular in warmer months, but transparent glass surrounds the inside dining area year round.
