Tucked away near Ruxton, Md., a Baltimore suburb, his base of operations bears little resemblance to the nook, kitchen table or dual-purpose room that constitutes a typical home office.
The building gives Orto a number of small, charming dining areas: a nook with a table for two, a front room with four tables and a narrow space between the door and the bar with one long table for 8 to 10.
Keep the fancy dining room for traditional formal meals like Thanksgiving with all the hoopla to get there; but maybe we need a kitchen table nook with trusted uncles like Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google and our buddy Warren Buffet to get down with a beer and a napkin style plan to get things done.
Ni Japanese Delicacies, which opened last September, is not a restaurant, just a cluttered stall (a nook, really) without tables or chairs.
Amanda Cohen, the chef and the owner, who worked at Angelica Kitchen and Pure Food and Wine, is devoted to vegetable dishes like carrot dumplings with Parmesan curls, and portobello mousse with truffled pear and fennel compote, and regards them as "candy from the earth," hence the name of the 18-seat communal-table nook: 430 East Ninth Street.
Lest the name fail to convey adequate profligacy, English established his restaurant on Gold Street, in a hotel called Gild Hall, and he christened a dining-room nook the C.E.O.'s Table.
Travelers have no way of knowing beforehand if a couch, table or nook will be available, and the amount of traffic passing through — especially when the hotel bar is nearby — may make serious or confidential discussion difficult.
Pulled-back draperies frame a bay window, an intimate nook with two small tables tucked into it.
Instead, they feature bar seating, breakfast nooks, or the dining table itself.
Alt rock plays loudly, and low seats cluster in nooks around tiny tables crowded with big wine glasses.
