Regulars have cut back dining out to once or twice a week rather than three or four times, he said, and deliveries are down.
Back dining areas need freshening.
Reservations -- Taken for back dining rooms only.
More tables fill the roomier back dining area.
The large space is handsome, with a front room facing French doors that open onto the sidewalk, a larger middle area and a back dining space set off by arches.
There is one step up to the back dining room.
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Unless they spoke up, diners were shown to the noisy back dining room.
Despite the laid-back dining experience, the cooking is handled with the utmost seriousness.
Mr. Matthai, an architect and furniture designer in Mexico City, created the piece in 1971 as a modern take on the traditional Mexican ladder-back dining chair.
