At any rate, the selection of the restaurant dominated our fantasies for weeks as in our minds, we dined on a hundred meals or more.
At La Tomaquera, a tiny restaurant dominated by a charcoal grill in the open kitchen, butter is the lubricant of choice.
A Touch of Venice is an airy, attractive, white-tablecloth restaurant dominated by a wall of windows, with views of expansive green lawns, boats at anchor and spectacular sunsets.
Although El Chicanito and a neighbor, Latino restaurant, dominate the scene in the South Bronx, the largest cluster of Mexican night spots is in the west-central part of the borough.
Emblematic of the new local, organically oriented breweries are places like Earth Bread & Brewery (7136 Germantown Avenue; 215-242-6666; www.earthbrewpubewery.com), andrewpub and largely organic restaurant dominated by a dome-shaped, wood-burning oven that opened last October in Mount Airy, an eco-minded neighborhood west of Center City.
If you pay much attention to Chinese food on the Westside, you probably know about Meizhou Dongpo in the Westfield Century City mall, a modernist restaurant dominated by its dramatically placed pottery and candy-colored lighting, that was the first U.S. outlet of a well-regarded Sichuan-style chain based in Beijing.
The Lucky Onion group, owned by Superdry founder Julian Dunkerton, dominates Cheltenham the way Jeremy Mogford's restaurants dominate Oxford.
Union Center is the site of a venerable old bank, as well as shops, pubs and restaurants, dominated by Italian but with options like Filipino.
It was sheer lack of planning, and a bit of real estate lust, that led a pair of French-trained chefs to establish their country-French bistro in this exurb of Phoenix, where chain restaurants dominate and residents balk at $22 entrees.
Restaurants dominated the ranks.
