His restaurant, Rose Mediterranean, which opened in November 2010, is named for that grandmother, whose influence shows up in just about anything Italian on the menu.
The noise of the restaurant rose up around them, and for a moment he felt enfolded by the warm lighting and the voices and the smell of food being thoughtfully prepared.
It has a highly regarded restaurant, rose-scented gardens, a cobbled courtyard and converted linhay stable, which offers fair-weather dining and an outhouse with space for wet bikes and muddy boots.
Ms. Spiotta was sitting at a round oak table in the restaurant the Rose & Kettle in a blue and white early-19th-century frame building.
FOR Santo Romano, whose restaurant, Red Rose, has been serving linguine and veal in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, for 17 years, the computer age has officially arrived.
Whether stealing a gold plaque honoring her father's long years of employment -- or the dining utensils from a Chinese restaurant -- Rose was stalking vaudeville's impresarios long before the concept of a "tiger mother" gained popularity in Asian American families.
"El Bulli got the top spot two years in a row," John Willoughby, a frequent contributor to the Dining section of The New York Times and a former regional chair for the awards, said of the restaurant in Roses, Spain, that has been one of the toughest reservations in the world.
After he announced that El Bulli restaurant in Roses, north of Barcelona, would close for a two-year hiatus in 2012, Mr. Adri et drop that he would devote more time to the 44-room Hacienda, which he said allowed him to explore other areas of his creativity -- "like breakfast," he said.
El Bulli restaurant in Roses, Spain, long considered one of the best few restaurants in the world, if not the very best, closed Saturday after serving one final meal for family and friends of Ferran Adrià, El Bulli's chef and co-owner.
Tar & Roses: Andrew Kirschner's small-plates restaurant Tar & Roses is where almost everything passes through the big wood-burning oven and a line on the menu identifies the firewood of the day.
Ms. O'Brien added: "I recently ran into a friend, Brian O'Leary, who used to own the Harbor Rose restaurant in Sag Harbor.
