The limited-seating dinner is a chef's-table, communal-dining experience. Cost is $90 ($70 Course: Duck-leg confit, truffled cauliflower, French beans, black-cherry shallot compote. Wine: Kalima Bin 28, Shiraz. Course: Cajun spiced New York strip Okay, now I'm stopping. Despite my injury, the dining room table did not become my mortal enemy, my nemesis to be forever scorned until the day I could seek vengeance. Instead it became my job to set the table. And eventually I took a lot of pleasure in When I was about six years old, he bought me a yellow T-shirt with big black letters that said I had a flashback to the dining room table -- sitting there with my dad, the papers spread before us, my mom cooking dinner and my dad asking my opinion Satisfy Dad's 'cue craving with a combo plate at Black Hog BBQ. Photograph by Scott Suchman If dad dreams about a pilgrimage to Noma, take him to chef Tarver King’s greenhouse-like dining room overlooking the surrounding countryside; many of the We stuck together and we've done very well in the business." As we sat in the tiny, crowded ground-floor dining room, a family, including a gaggle of children, chatted at the table behind us. When a brimming seafood platter arrived in their midst Just past the main dining room at the the mise en place is set up and any seasonally inspired appetizers begin to take shape, you’re night will start off with a sparkling wine reception with Chef Snook. With a long dining table (with views into .
(Four is probably the best call for a pre-theater meal.) The table: 18. This is the four-top I prefer because it’s centrally located in the dining room but set off in a nook that offers a degree of privacy. Nearby theater: GableStage at the Biltmore Royer says of his new place: "It will be a fine- dining restaurant but we want diners to feel warm and comfortable, without the stiffness." He will be chef-patron. His partner, The Lo & Behold Group, runs restaurants such as The Black Swan in Cecil Street The name tells the story, he explains: "Black Dirt is the richest soil available for fruits and produce. It speaks to our interest in farm-to-table dining and sustainability and another 90 or so seats in the dining room, under a 15-foot-high ceiling. As with living-room black market value - is increasingly the basis of transactions. In Los Chorros, an upscale district at the bottom of Caracas' Avila mountain, Eduardo Moreno, 53, runs La Isabela. He is the father of clandestine dining in Venezuela. .