The "Atelier" concept was similarly straightforward: the restaurants are designed around a tapas bar model, with an open-plan kitchen and an egalitarian ethos - the London restaurant, for instance, does not take bookings for lunch.
The work of Eric Moody, the 28-year-old chef, it's a meal emblematic of this straightforward, highly enjoyable restaurant.
No matter how fanciful the plot, each episode includes straightforward interviews with restaurant owners, information about their cuisine's history and culture — complete with maps and archival photos — and their establishment's contact information, plastered across the screen.
Founded in 2012 by Ruzwana Bashir (CEO) and Oskar Bruening (CTO), the San Francisco-based startup describes itself as "OpenTable for the activities market" in that it aims to make booking activities as seamless and straightforward as a restaurant or even a flight.
Their spare, 20-seat restaurant sells straightforward sandwiches and Italian-American staples during the day.
At a restaurant this straightforward, the "crispy duck confit" can't be as leaden and dry as it was one of the two recent times I had it.
But when he came in this restaurant -- straightforward, normal guy like we sport people should be and mostly are -- immediately we had the right understanding of each other, and off we went.
His answer was in keeping with his menu, his cooking and their whole approach to running a restaurant: smart and straightforward, thoughtful and self-deprecating.
Because New York University Medical Center interrupts 30th Street, access to the restaurant is not straightforward: diners can go east on 23rd Street and then north seven blocks on a service road along the East River.
Ruffl pretty straightforward – you find a great restaurant nearby, with immediate availability.
