This is a big barn of a dining hall lavishly outfitted with wagon wheels and saddles.
"I never thought of a dining guest as a cover," he said.
As the granddaughter of a dining doyen, the bride was introduced to haute cuisine at age 13.
i) Sit on the edge of a dining chair or step, gripping the edge with your hands either side of your hips.
One enthusiast I met, a Colombian woman whose extreme version of a dining club involves hunting for the main course, told me, "You must kiss the mezcal".
In recent years, the village's three-block-long Main Street has been revitalized and has become somewhat of a dining mecca with five restaurants.
While not a monumental feast of a dining experience, Belgique offers a palette of gourmet food that is close to perfect in its finely honed way.
A shining bar and a sushi counter lead to a tunnel of a dining room ending in an L at the open kitchen.
It has a vast flourish of a dining hall, a tower, a pigeon loft and fascinating hosts who are an unusual mix of shyness, extroversion and humour.
In another, waiters sharply increased their tips by giving each member of a dining party a piece of candy and then, seemingly spontaneously, offering each person a second piece, too.
The local restaurant, elegantly rustic in the manner of a dining spot in Aspen or Jackson Hole, offered a hickory-grilled rib-eye for $38 and an appetizer constructed around heirloom figs.
