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Charlie Trotter, a chef whose flagship restaurant, Charlie Trotter's, helped establish Chicago as a serious dining city, died on Tuesday.
But if you fancy something more substantial than stodgy nibbles and dressed-up street food, Cornercopia (4th Avenue Brixton Village Market) and Upstairs London (89B Acre Lane) still seem like the only serious dining proposals around.
Serious dining has moved on to a different place — in most ways, a better and more egalitarian one.
IT would be easy to dismiss the new Polo Lounge in Manhasset as a late-night spot that appeals to twenty- or thirty-somethings more interested in drinking and partying than eating, much less serious dining.
After shaking off all the clichés of steak and deep-dish pizza, Chicago today knows that it stands shoulder to shoulder with any major city as a serious dining destination.
TOT-FRIENDLY TOUCHES This serious dining destination at the Four Seasons Hotel does not just accept children — it welcomes them with amenities like a stroller check-in, a free Beanie Baby (the hotel is owned by the toy's maker, Ty Warner), coloring book and crayons, and even a portable DVD player with a selection of age-appropriate movies like "Shrek".
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Chef/owner William Belickis attracts chic gourmands for casual lounge grazing or more serious fine dining at one of Seattle's premier destinations.
This was serious wining and dining – Romanoffs in Beverly Hills was a Hollywood haven and there Mamoulian schmoozed Dandridge, outlining his vision for Cleopatra, the enormous epic he was set to direct for 20th Century Fox.
THE restaurant MK Valencia is one of those places that seem to be popping up all over northern New Jersey these days: a combination of upscale watering hole with happy-hour specials and $11 litchi martinis, and a serious, sleekly designed dining establishment that might have emigrated from Gansevoort Street in Manhattan.
Good night, dining room.
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