Elizabeth David pointed out that a bad meal is always expensive, but a large Domino's costs almost £20, the price of a set lunch in many respectable restaurants.
The organizers, inexplicably, built no respectable restaurants or enticing stores within the zone; the concession stands were best avoided, being barely any different from what you get at Loews before a movie.
There's a fine salad of watercress, tomato, charred onion slices, and rare cubes of tender steak that taste just like the wine-soaked beef tips every respectable American restaurant once served.
The star, though, was a dish that every respectable Chengdu restaurant attempts: wood ear mushrooms, somehow rendered both soft and crispy, tossed with sesame oil, vinegar and fresh cilantro.
While this is unlikely at respectable sushi restaurants, think twice before having sushi that's been sitting out for who knows how long at a buffet made by who-knows-who.
Perhaps the biggest drawback, though, is that, while Cold Spring has a respectable number of restaurants and shops for a village its size, weekenders are used to having more.
I'm only reluctantly becoming a respectable tipper at restaurants, and that's because my husband publicly glowers at my penny-pinching.
This barbecue restaurant does very respectable short ribs.
No one needs a Costa Rican restaurant for the respectable jumbo shrimp cooked in butter and garlic ($17), the competently grilled though unexciting chicken breast ($14.50) or the chicken breast crowned with mushroom sauce ($14.50).
There is a very funny scene in which Chris and his sometime lover, Anna, pose as respectable suburbanites at the fancy revolving restaurant on the top floor of the tower.
