Sentence examples for with the diners from inspiring English sources

Sometimes he sat down with the diners, a signal of special privilege.

Reichl, after all her experience, compares the restaurant world of New York to a theatre, with the diners and critics merely players in it.

In this time of labor shortages, Roc has managed to find that special breed of waiter who can take the order for a table of eight without putting pencil to pad or making eye contact with the diners.

Late-evening customers who have lingered over dessert — a childish, indulgent list that includes doughnuts, a make-your-own sundae, and a sticky-bun doppelgänger called "monkey bread" — might find the lights going up momentarily, giving an eerie glimpse of the room's origins, with the diners themselves so many widgets waiting to leave the factory floor.

Kuribara and his two assistants banter with the diners along the bar, the menu looks as if it had been through a wash cycle folded up in someone's back pocket, and a notice at the entrance tells ignorant Westerners not to rub their chopsticks together or dunk wasabi in the soy sauce.

We wouldn't be surprised if the finale opened with the diner scene retold from another angle.

We also liked the sambosas, five crisply fried turnovers filled with the diner's choice of mixed vegetables, ground beef or chicken.

In keeping with the diner theme, the menu is gigantic, running patterns from granola and yogurt all the way to steamed yuca, with stops for plenty of Spanish-style diner standbys along the way.

"For those two years, Paul kept telling us he wasn't really aware of what was going to happen with the diner," she said.

Philip McGrath (the chef and owner) and his vigilant staff are concerned with the diner's total happiness, further ensured by dishes like venison with juniper, brandade (cod with potato) and apple galette with ice cream.

But then, considering that when the Bowery Diner opens on Sunday he'll be serving whelks, periwinkles, a duck salad with confit gizzards, and skate with squash purée in addition to burgers, clam chowder and grilled cheese sandwiches, he admitted that he was getting a "little creative" with the diner concept.