Book a table for dinner and listen to the live music from the comfort of your seat.
OpenTable, a website, allows people to book a table without having to plead with a snooty hostess.
At theguestchef.net, customers can view a short biography of the chef, peruse the menu and book a table.
For dinner, try to book a table at the candle chandelier-lit restaurant One of By Land, Two if By Sea, Aaron Burr's former carriage house.
The landlord of a pub where Stone sometimes drinks wanted to remain anonymous but said the singer made "no fuss" when she once had to be turned away having failed to book a table for dinner.
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For an unforgettable view of the Eiffel Tower when it sparkles in the evening, or a bright business lunch under a glass canopy, book a table at Les Ombres, on the rooftop of the Musee du Quai Branly.
We can get a ride, book a table, get tickets to a show, find a hotel or even a house to crash in, and buy a gift, each with a couple of clicks of an app, and all at the last second.
Or book a table next door at one of Asian fusion star Susur Lee's twin establishments: SusUr (picture seven-course tasting menus eaten in a white room fitted with ostrich-skin banquettes), and right beside that, the brand-new Lee (with an equally dazzling, less costly menu).
"We recognize the huge community of people that text, especially our tech-savvy customer base, and we're thrilled that we can finally enable them to text our existing business number to book a table, place an order, or simply ask a general question that can easily be answered in short form, " said Anna Weinberg, owner and operator of Marlowe.
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Long story short: I wrote it as a chapter book instead of a coffee table book because I have a lifetime of material on the subject and I wanted to share it.
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So customers who have stayed in a hotel they like may return, even if rivals of the same standard are offering cheaper rates especially as on a repeat visit they may know which side of the hotel is less noisy, and the manager may remember to book them a good table for dinner.
"It was just turning red, " explained Mr. Dodge, an artist who created a coffee table book about bicycles.
Bruce Bawer is the author of the 1993 book, A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society.
The coffee table book offers a recap of his career in photos and press clips that runs through the 2010 season.
Japanese designers have brought to life a coffee table that becomes a futon plus table and chairs (by Kewb) as well as book shelves that are also jungle gyms (by Koichiro Hoshino).
He sat at the table reading a book, his back straight, his head bent as if in prayer.
Today Myhrvold announced that The Photography of Modernist Cuisine will debut this fall, finally placing coffee in a coffee-table book.
Now in their third year, with 150, 000 unique visitors per month and a coffee-table book to their credit, the pair make money through producing advertorials, campaigns, sponsorships and casts from their band of 5, 000 tastemakers.
But, while stylish, a zebra-print rug seems too impersonal, and a limited edition coffee table book might not suit his taste.
If you've found yourself even mildly obsessed with style, art or design over the past score, there's a better-than-average chance you've got a Nicholas Callaway book on your coffee table.
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If you can book dinner on Open Table, or a flight on Southwest or United online, then why shouldn't you be able to make an appointment at your local Social Security office the same way?
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O, a style blog and companion coffee table book detailing the fashion of First Lady Michelle Obama.
Bush finally ended up publishing that tome, a generously-proportioned coffee-table book called The King of Style, last month.
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His client also requested deluxe print materials, so Mr. Saslove created a 30-page coffee-table book that was hand-wrapped in Italian suede.
Normally, Blume keeps a box of tissues on the table at book signings, she said, keenly aware of her effect on fans.
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Aspiring comic book artist Joshua Boulet has set up shop at a smaller table, with a duffel bag full of several issues of his tongue-in-cheek comic, "The Green Reefer, " which follows the antics of a pot-smoking anti-hero and his beer-drinking sidekick, Six-Pack.
In the library, where weekly workshops, book clubs and talks are held, is a selection of beautiful Taschen coffee table books and must-reads including Vogue creative director Grace Coddington's autobiography.
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