I do not wish to debate the relative merits of French and Chinese cuisine, and the French may have coined the term "restaurant", but they were several centuries behind China.
But fortunately, the only territory we had to fight over was a space at one of the few narrow tables in the otherwise tiny restaurant (if the term restaurant can even be applied to Abu-Hassan, which serves precisely three dishes: hummus, a variation of hummus, and a creamed fava bean dish named fal which also includes, you guessed it, hummus).
If the term "museum restaurant" once summoned up institutional dinnerware, dank steam tables, cafeteria trays and dishwasher odors, Mr. Bolton's aspirations are immeasurably higher.
He has been running a cafe called The Secret Ingredient from his front room in Newington Green, London, for over a year now, and says he prefers the term "home restaurant", because pop-up has "become something that people use as a marketing tool".
Since Sambo had become a racially pejorative term, the restaurant was forced to change its name due to local community pressure, as well communities not granting the chain permits for expansion.
Under its terms the restaurant agreed to serve only beer and wine and to limit seating in its "whispering garden" to parties of two.
In terms of restaurants, there is the homey yet stylish Redoubt Bar & Eatery, but this is a fundamentally provincial place.
"We consider the Seaport to be an important part of the location," said Clifford Finn, the CitiHabitats director of new development marketing who is overseeing the rental, "because it has a lot of the amenities, in terms of restaurants and shopping".
Eric E. Schmidt, chairman and chief executive of Google, began his speech by declaring, "We know we have begun the recovery" because searches on google.com for terms like "restaurants" and "dancing" are increasing.
In terms of restaurants, we had expected log cabins with animal pelts all over the walls, free-flowing vodka cooled in the snowbanks, and game roasted on a spit outside.
(It also noted him as a PPX, for personne particulierement extraordinaire, a restaurant term for V.I.P).
