Indeed, nothing irks Mr. Crews like the standard restaurant wine markup.
Seat covers give standard restaurant chairs a lush appearance, and the staff is adorned in traditional Turkish costumes.
Maschler and his wife Fay, the Evening Standard restaurant critic, were seen as a fashionable couple on the London scene of the 70s.
His restaurants — with their Japanese names, Taiwanese pork buns, Korean rice cakes, Continental flourishes, and intellectual-bro Americana twists — remix and subvert everything from ancient culinary traditions to standard restaurant-service expectations.
He glanced back and forth between the standard restaurant fare on his left and the healthy suggestions on his right, looked up at the waiter, and said resignedly, "Oh, I'll just have the fettucini Alfredo".
"This is a very expensive way to drink," he said, describing the vessel as the "count and marquesa version" of the standard restaurant juice glass from which his father used to sip wine.
THE dining table in Michael Blieden's rambling Los Angeles apartment is a heavy piece of used butcher block, still sporting stains of animal fat, propped up on standard restaurant-fare metal bases.
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While Sprig and SpoonRocket are competing with each other, their success will more depend on whether they can disrupt the existing ways to eat at home: cooking, take-out, and standard restaurant delivery.
There are a number of excellent, international-standard restaurants in Marrakesh serving Moroccan food in stylish surroundings and at international prices (upward of $50 a person).
