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...incidentally, immediately follows the silent removal of empty appetizer dishes). In terms of entrees, Chez Henri's offers a little of everything: from paella to venison to the traditional steak--but each dish is a meal in itself. The kitchen really doesn't leave much up to the individual diner, although requests are honored as often as possible. You have to like your fish as well as your Grapefruit BBQ sauce, Moro Rice and Jicama Shrimp (but chances are you will). It's evident that the chefs in this exotic kitchen know how to combine their dressings and vegetables...
...stock-market theory I was working on. It was based on the premise that investors gradually lost confidence in the market by patronizing New York City restaurants. In pricey New York restaurants these days, there are two types of patrons whose presence--almost always in packs--can make a diner who's celebrating a special occasion wonder what would have been so bad about just making do with Chinese takeout. One type consists of men dressed all in black--a group the New York Press, a downtown weekly, has called the "Comme des Knuckleheads crowd," after a downtown store called...
...Monday, well, there has to be something better than this game on. Take the Colts, but rent Diner...
...Ebbers was ripe for the kind of transformation that business legends are made of. In a Days Inn diner in Hattiesburg, Miss., goes WorldCom lore, Ebbers and some partners scratched out on a napkin a plan for a phone company that would resell WATS long-distance service to local businesses. The name for the company--Long Distance Discount Services--supposedly came from a helpful waitress. "The only experience Bernie had operating a long-distance carrier was that he used the phone," recalls an investor in the original enterprise, which changed its name to WorldCom...
...Diner (1982) is a coffee movie. Bunch of guys, hunched over bottomless cups and greasy food, stabbing out smokes in cheap foil ashtrays, bantering while the sun yawns. A coffee movie is Reservoir Dogs (1992): black suits, thin ties, some talk perhaps of virginity, of appointments, of tipping. Coffee is sallow men, indoor men, men of fluorescent-lit worlds and darker. A coffee movie is Midnight Run (1988): Odd couple on the road and on edge; crabby, dusty and tired. Small white ceramics, with a red stripe at the lip. The happy ending? DeNiro opens a coffee shop...