On Dec. 14, Mr. Franklin and his longtime producer Richard Ornstein are opening a 160-seat theme restaurant called Joe Franklin's Memory Lane Restaurant at 713 Eighth Avenue, at 45th Street.
The Beacon, on upper Broadway between West Seventy-fourth and West Seventy-fifth Streets, is a three-thousand-seat, Greek-themed, opulent silent-movie palace — a magnificent remnant of the Jazz Age, built in 1926 and lately restored to its original grandeur.
Mark Gallagher had his lawyer file for a liquor license for his planned second Manor Oktoberfest restaurant, in Forest Hills, on Oct. 7. "It was approved a week later, when I expected it to take months," he said of his 250-seat German-themed bar and grill.
For that room's wallpaper, he used rifle targets bought in his native Louisiana; bullet cartridges embedded in a Lucite toilet seat extend the theme.
This time the need to deal with the Governor's remark about the Jewish seat often set the theme for such debates.
Ancyra was quickly rebuilt and reoccupied, as was Amorium itself, although it never recovered its former glory and the seat of the Anatolic theme was for a time transferred to Polybotus.
Tickets start at £5 (about $8) for standing-room-only and £10 for seats, with Olympic-themed discounts for multiple shows.
Isla Montecristi 57 Unquowa Road Fairfield (203) 292-3058 www.islamontecristi.com GOOD THE SPACE -- Lively tropical theme dominates limited seating space with banquettes and crowded tables.
Inside, Range Rover customers will get a choice of four themes, with offset seat colors.
Our tester A4, for example, had optional leather seats ($1,320), with a theme of taupe-over-cream-hued panels running throughout the cabin, all interspersed with a rich, caramel-stained birds-eye maple.
The typical plot functions more than adequately, but takes a back seat to the game's central theme – exploration.
