One time, Disney was dining alone in a Los Angeles restaurant after a vexing day in the studio.

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So when Loubet talks about opening a restaurant with a new food concept, the dining establishment in the city is going to take notice.

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Part of designer-turned-restaurateur Sir Terence Conran's new Boundary Project, which also includes a French fine-dining restaurant, rooftop bar-grill, and 17 hotel rooms in a converted Victorian warehouse, Albion serves gussied-up British pub fare to artsy neighborhood types.

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Consider the advantages of using a space that was a restaurant before, with kitchen and dining room in place.

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"Niman Ranch, " says Kotler, as her dining companion slices a pork chop at Woodward's Garden restaurant in San Francisco.

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Wicked Spoon, the all-you-can-eat operation at the relatively new Cosmopolitan (every casino hotel in Vegas has a buffet restaurant) actually changed the paradigm of this pretty standardized dining style.

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The restaurant underwent a major renovation in 2005 and there are now three floors of different dining rooms, an enormous wine selection and a comforting menu of surf and turf featuring their famous dish, lobster Thermidor.

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Sloane Miller, author of the popular blog "Please Don't Pass the Nuts" and the book "Allergic Girl: Adventures in Living Well with Food Allergies" has a very specific strategy for ensuring a safe dining experience at a restaurant.

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Other well-known chefs now travel the world and use Pop Ups as a way to market their home restaurant in local popular restaurants or even resorts, which offer dining rooms and advertise food-driven events featuring these chefs.

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