"Mrs. Fletcher" is lit up by flashes of acute observation — the fastidious way, for example, that a character who has just chowed down on hot wings pulls a napkin from a dispenser and, instead of wiping his face, "unfolded it very carefully and laid it over his plate, like he was covering his bones with a blanket".
He pulled a napkin out of its silver dispenser and was amazed that more napkins waited behind it.
"When a celebrity comes into the club, I'll pull up a napkin, and I'll wipe off the seat," Mr. Tepperberg said.
Using misdirection, pull the napkin towards you, off the table, so the glass falls out and lands in your knees.
She pulled out a crumpled napkin and asked Larry to sign it.
So, I put my passport away, and pull up a chair, open the napkin, sip the paired wine, and savor the epicurean latitudes and longitudes of the globe, without customs and immigration, without translation.
For ambiance, pull out a couple of cloth napkins and serve an accompanying glass of red wine (or grape juice) in a small, thin glass without a stem, the type used in the red-checkered tablecloth Italian restaurants of my childhood.
He nodded, then buried his face in a napkin and tried to pull himself together.
"It's magical!" He pulled out another napkin.
As encompassing as the service is meant to be, the Elysian brand also means "sometime, pull back a bit," Mr. Carli says, and just let a napkin be a napkin rather than a device to help burnish the brand image.
