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...when the €10 slice of chocolate cake at Georges costs a little more than €2 to make. A string of restaurants where the food isn't the point, where the marketing plan and the look and feel of the room matter more than what's on the plate? That really is putting a fresh stamp on Paris. The idea has taken root. Goodbye wicker, hello chintz. Café owners across Paris have been imitating the Costes' haute-design blueprint to the point where it risks turning into a new café cliché. How much does the Costes...
...cottage. It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly an unsightly street. It has no windows on the street side, where it presents instead a solid wall of resin-treated wood that has weathered over time to resemble rusted steel plate...
...more stylish Koh Samui is emerging from the bars and backpacks, then its avatar is undoubtedly Zico's, tel: (66 77) 230 500, a multilevel Brazilian bar and grill on Chaweng beach. Skewers of meat are carved straight to your plate, and in full swing it's a carnivorous orgy, with devastating desserts thrown in. Meanwhile, those who think meat is murder can head for the mezzanine and Koh Samui's coolest bar. If there's room, of course...
...changed a lot, so why not change your perception?" Advertisers - German ones, anyway - are applauding. "The British do not believe we can mock ourselves, so we have to show that we can," says Ralph Blome, manager of Innovista, a Hanover ad agency. His own suggestion: "A picture of a plate of Sauerkraut and the slogan 'We are Krauts - we are having a good time!'" You can already hear the plane tickets being booked...
...epicenter of small-plate dining is the Bay Area, where out-of-work dotcommers are seeking to reconcile their gourmet habits with shrinking budgets. Diners can sample rabbit-sausage flatbread for $12 at A Cote in Oakland, or they can snack on stuffed dates with chorizo and blue cheese for $8 at the Spanish-Moroccan Baraka in San Francisco. The Russian Hill restaurant Pesce last year shifted away from traditional full-service Italian food to small plates in the Venetian cicchetti style, like swordfish rolls or octopus-and-potato salad...