Others are about as hole-in-the-wall as it gets, with only a few plastic orange booths, a counter, and a photo-heavy menu board above it.
Delvecchio's 1950s malt shop, with its wood paneling, orange booths, jukebox jams and neon "A" sign, served as the backdrop for the teenage crushes and small quarrels that propelled the plot.
You can either eat your meal at one of the orange booths, or ask the cashier to bring it to you in the attached Money Plays bar, which offers 24 beers on tap and 90 bottled beers for your drinking pleasure.
On a sunny weekday, Mr. Becker settled into an orange plastic booth in Miss Lily's.
The Los Angeles chef Joachim Splichal recently opened Leatherby's Café Rouge inside the Segerstrom Concert Hall (714-429-7640), where the squiggly orange mohair booths echo the hall's design.
On an otherwise residential street, behind a red, green and white awning, Zuppardi's has wood-paneled walls and families crammed into orange vinyl booths eating Napolitano "apizza" (pronounced "ah-BEETZ").
EARLY BIRD Come early and expect a wait at the Coffee Cup Cafe (3734 East Fourth Street; 562-433-3292; coffeecupcafe-lb.coffeea coffee shop with orange vinyl booths and unexpected touches, like modern art and spicy Mexican influences on an otherwise traditional diner menu.
Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire, appeared comfortable on the big orange boat, whose shabby booths and fried-food concessions are patronized by thousands of commuters and tourists each day.
GETTING AROUND A map of the island can be printed from the Web site of the Randalls Island Park Alliance (randallsisland.org), or picked up at any of the orange corrugated-metal information booths or snack bars on the island.
