Sentence examples for refined restaurants from inspiring English sources

The portions are more generous than those typically found in refined restaurants.

The local penchant for cunning design and cozy interiors remains undimmed as candles blaze in the city's increasingly refined restaurants.

It's also amazing value if you want to live here in style for a few days, drinking Bloody Marys in refined restaurants and sleeping in Indochinese style.

"Miquel is extraordinarily versatile, the kind of person who can get as much enjoyment from peeling and sharing a mango in a hut with villagers as from eating in one of Spain's most expensive and refined restaurants," Mr. Lacuesta said in an interview.

From Los Angeles to New York, Filipino cooking has expanded well beyond its no-frills "point-point" eateries (the suburban outlets where diners point to steam-table dishes they want) to more refined restaurants that cater to diners who want wine, not soda, with their meals.

Sommeliers used to be found only in the most refined restaurants, mostly French and with Michelin stars.

Its success, along with the success of his more refined restaurant next door, Topolobampo, has spawned many other serious and un-Americanized Latin places, making Chicago an unlikely culinary standout when it comes to Latin cuisine.

But the menu at Atelier does make you wonder if there might be a secret fertile patch of ground just across the street, tended by a monklike figure supplying the kitchen with the watercress, hyssop, chervil, parsley, tarragon and pea shoots that weave their way, like an insistent musical motif, through nearly every dish at this ambitious, highly refined restaurant.

ATELIER ** [rating: two stars] (212) 521-6125; 50 Central Park South Avenue of the Americass), in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel; $$$$; Review: 6/5/02 The chef, Gabriel Kreuther, has an elegant touch and a distinctive way with herbs and vegetables, treating them like co-stars instead of supporting players, in nearly every dish at this ambitious, refined restaurant.

Ashley's, 111 W. Markham St.; (501) 370-7011, www.capitalhotel. Lee Richardson's Southern charm has an upscale twist at the refurbished Capital Hotel's equally refined restaurant.

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