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napery
noun
Household linen, especially table linen.
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The napery at his eponymous restaurant is starched within an inch of its life, the wine list features grand crus you've only ever read about and Otto mine-hosts with the best of them.
Cooks who were curious about European food plumped instead for a woman whose first book opened with an implicit rebuke to the British writer: "We have purposely omitted cobwebbed bottles, the patron in his white cap bustling among his sauces, anecdotes about charming little restaurants with gleaming napery, and so forth .As Julia Child knew, Americans had no need to dream.
It's all very polished, with oak floors, comfortable banquettes, body-hugging boys' club chairs, fine napery, classy glassware, lampshades that shimmy with feathers, and two agreeable private rooms lined with antlers.
His restaurants drip with elegance, posh napery, silver-spoon service.
In the main restaurant, framed ink drawings of aristocrats at play line the walls, the napery is blindingly white, and the clientele unmistakably from Bank rather than Bermondsey.
Whitney, a high-powered P.R. woman, also prepares one of those "as if!" meals for her boyfriend on the roof of their building, complete with a wet bar, candles, tulips, champagne, and linen napery.
At Beacon, the cost of a reservation was eighty-five dollars a head, including all the beer and wine you could drink; the chairs were sleek and upholstered; the tables were set with silverware and napery; and each diner was handed a tan apron embroidered with the names of the event's principal suppliers the Brooklyn Brewery, DeBragga & Spitler Prime Beef, Gotham Seafood, and Cascade Linen.
They had brought along not only their own epicurean repasts but also their own tables, chairs, glasses, silver and napery.
The dining room, with its crisp white napery and polished ladderback chairs, manages to seem at once rustic and formal.
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