And most tablecloths don't exactly scream "sex appeal" (sorry tablecloths).
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They're fed up with the stuffy service and white tablecloths.
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Peddlers ring our bell to sell embroidered tablecloths or vegetables.
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But let's not start ordering Louis Vuitton tablecloths just yet.
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"I put out tablecloths and little bouquets," said Ms. Ziervogel.
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A well-dressed crowd flitted around hors d'oeuvres on white tablecloths.
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Should restaurants feature red, white, blue or no tablecloths at all?
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The cafeteria's tables are covered by tablecloths and freshly cut flowers.
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The one feature that will be absent almost everywhere is tablecloths.
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More casual lifestyles took their toll on lace tablecloths and handkerchiefs.
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The dining car features white tablecloths, low lighting and table-side service.
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Tins of muffins and rolls sat on tables covered with plastic tablecloths.
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It is a fast food restaurant, it's not something with white tablecloths.
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Footage shared online on Saturday showed flames licking at tables and tablecloths.
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Wait staff were pulling tablecloths off tables while Delaney was still speaking.
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Why don't their spirits don tablecloths or wagon covers and keep him company?
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They ate ceremoniously amid the clean tablecloths and paper napkins, watching their manners.
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Framed family pictures cover the walls and lace tablecloths grace the hardwood furniture.
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White tablecloths, plastic plates, and disposable utentils are laid out over linoleum tables.
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Guests huddled around heat lamps, wrapped in hoodies, blankets, and even spare tablecloths.
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A couple of dozen members sat around foldout tables set with vinyl tablecloths.
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She deliberated over several tablecloths and finally chose five sets with their napkins.
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Each look includes name cards, menus, runners, tablecloths, silverware, china, flowers, and more.
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In some lounges you can get spa treatments and dine on white tablecloths.
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Out with the white tablecloths, and along with them went the cheap, white plates.
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Howard is forgoing white tablecloths for a more dressed down approach to fine dining.
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And you have ideas for shower curtains, paint colors, tablecloths, and everything in between.
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The aisles were long and packed with party cups, cutlery, plates, tablecloths, and centerpieces.
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No tablecloths, the wait staff are much less formal, and silver service has gone.
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Ms. Rowan also emphasized the value of looking beyond white tablecloths for good eats.
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The napkins are soft and absorbent, and the thick tablecloths look smooth and elegant.
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Materia eschews fancy plates and tablecloths in the interest of making food more affordable.
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I had expected one of those smoky places with picnic tables and paper tablecloths.
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The tablecloths and the ceiling are black, which makes most of the room disappear.
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The dining area is minimalist and rustic, with no tablecloths and exposed brick walls.
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We had to hide bottles of alcohol under the tablecloths so they wouldn't steal them.
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Gerts was visiting the fair for the third time to buy mainly tablecloths and doormats.
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He said that oftentimes, fine dining is just used to describe places that have tablecloths.
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Red tablecloths were still wrung out, and no one was around to seat the crowd.
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Safir, sewing pillowcases, clothes and tablecloths for the apartment and paying the $750 monthly rent.
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Despite the paper tablecloths and stainless-steel cutlery, a second star was awarded in 1960.
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From disposable tablecloths and napkins to saving leftover water from the garden, every drop counts.
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"We use cloth napkins, tablecloths and candlelight — it's as classy as it can be," he says.
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The prom theme this year was "Denim and Diamonds," complete with denim tablecloths and cowboy hats.
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At Procle, shoulder pads become sponges for the kitchen, while old curtains are reinvented as tablecloths.
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The two teams of five faced each other, seated at metal tables covered with paper tablecloths.
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Herrera also made ballgowns out of checkered fabric like tablecloths, and big fat Yankee bandbox stripes.
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Or, in the case of Ethan Hawke, having him fling tablecloths full of cutlery at you.
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"We were just figuring out the final touches, like the tablecloths and centerpieces," Ms. Janko said.
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As of now, he has neither tablecloths nor stars, though Amass is listed in the guidebook.
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Candy-color tablecloths camouflage cafeteria tables, and strobe lights transform the gymnasium into a dance floor.
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Your guests aren't looking at your tablecloths thinking 'they should have chosen the other shade of purple.
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The video shows delicately overflowing white floral centerpieces of sweet peas and white lilac on cream tablecloths.
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The shop features things like candy-colored kitchen appliances, tablecloths, pillows, dining sets, cookware, and desk accessories.
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The maestras at El Instituto kept us busy after school boxing candies, sewing tablecloths and making dolls.
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In the photos she posted, there were tables set with pink tablecloths, pink balloon decorations, and no people.
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Mr. John once spent $100,000 on tablecloths in Italy with Gianni Versace; Mr. Taupin likes to lasso cattle.
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Campaign strategists and reporters encamped at the Des Moines Marriott and around the white tablecloths at 801 Chophouse.
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The White House selected embroidered jade tablecloths when it was learned that was Sophie Grégoire Trudeau's favorite color.
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" It shouldn't be like, "This restaurant sucks because I thought there were gonna be tablecloths, and there weren't.
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The tablecloths were blue plastic and flowered and the food was soft, overcooked noodles and hard, crusty bread.
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I buy them at various fabric stores, thrift stores, and some of them are my mom's own tablecloths.
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They'll extricate antique cushion covers from Pakistan, tablecloths with block-printed blue elephants and vintage rugs from Afghanistan.
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Every nook and cranny seems to be adorned with gay flags, checkered tablecloths, tequila bottles and Western memorabilia.
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In the 1970s, feminist artists such as Margaret Harrison and Judy Chicago sewed polemics onto canvas and tablecloths.
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On busy nights, hundreds of people pack into the hall, gathering around tables covered with red-checkered tablecloths.
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Wine bottles rest on polished steel coasters, and servers sweep crumbs from the white tablecloths after every course.
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It has just three tables with checkered tablecloths in the front room and three in the back room.
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They went down some steps and entered a room with a dozen or so tables with white tablecloths.
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The dining room, done in white with mirrors and crystal chandeliers, is an elegant throwback, tablecloths and all.
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Décor is minimal: walls bare save for lamps with dangling crystal orbs, carpet and tablecloths in matching crimson.
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Then the bill came, and it's amazing that they somehow didn't throw up right there on the tablecloths.
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The department's dead-stock T-shirts, tents and tablecloths have proven something of a treasure trove for him.
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To be recognized without having white tablecloths and a PR representative or 38 dollar entrees, people appreciated being noticed.
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My linen tablecloths arrive at my office — they are nice, but I still know it was an unnecessary purchase.
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Ask guests to decorate tablecloths with glow in the dark paint, then use their creations at the wedding itself.
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The graves were cleaned days ago, so now it's time for the tablecloths, plates, pots, and pans come out.
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I get down with Taco Bell and $1 pizza sometimes, but I also respect vegetables and enjoy white tablecloths.
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When restaurants close their doors, they no longer need tablecloths delivered by linen services or beer from local brewers.
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Do the white tablecloths, cover charges and hushed-up voices of so many commercial establishments leave you feeling crimped?
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White tablecloths and stiff lace curtains—this was a part of the country where sombre stood in for formal.
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But then tasting counters came along; suddenly the rituals of captains standing at attention above white tablecloths seemed antiquated.
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The new dining room is nearly unlit, and the round tables are heavy, immense, and draped in black tablecloths.
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Search for restaurants that have better sound absorption features in their interior design — tablecloths, upholstered chairs, plants, drapes, sound absorbers.
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There are no tablecloths; instead, rented dark wood tables are featured with only a woven white runner down the center.
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Or did your partner decide they want to get matching plates, napkins, tablecloths, and cutlery just after the stores close?
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At the end of the lesson the students spread out tablecloths and ladled the pasta and sauce into their plates.
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Once upstairs, dark leather banquettes and gray tablecloths offset panoramic views of the marble-and-stone city that extends below.
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I followed some stairs up to the roof, where several tables were draped with white tablecloths and set for dinner.
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They hang sheets, tablecloths, or white fabric from their balconies as a symbol of purity, to chase away the devil.
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It specializes in ambitious but unfussy French cooking—no white tablecloths, no minimalist dishes sprinkled with microgreens or gold leaf.
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On the other end of the spectrum is the elegant Crocifisso, with white tablecloths, polished black floorboards and dim lighting.
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There's also a second restaurant, Di Mare, for Italian food that overlooks the water with red-and-white checked tablecloths.
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The morning after the dinner, the sales reps reconvened in a dreary conference room with red tablecloths and damask carpeting.
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Gone were the formal tablecloths and many of the German knickknacks, along with the Christmas decorations that hung year round.
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Luckily, the food got better on the next train, where the white tablecloths are likely to remain — for now at least.
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With its beef-driven menu, starched tablecloths and dark wood trim, it is a favorite of locals and can seat 300.
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The groom turned his expansive backyard into a festive space, furnishing rows of tables with gold-colored tablecloths and fruit bowls.
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Mr. Pollinger said the restaurant would have the simple, warm look of a farmhouse, with no tablecloths in the dining room.
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Waiting for an Uber, Ms. Haskell rhapsodized about the spectacular crystal, the silverware, the gold charger plates, the tablecloths, the decorations.
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Decor included blue balloons and blue-and-white tablecloths and napkins, plus tables decorated with an assortment of fresh flowers and produce.
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You can treat your special someone to a romantic meal without tapered candles, white tablecloths, and a wine list you can't understand.
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The cheery restaurant has red plastic polka-dotted tablecloths and was crowded with workers in their uniforms when CNN affiliate M6 visited.
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Now it's a hip gastro pub with white tablecloths and a backlit bar and caricatures of dearly departed Mario lining every wall.
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Wedding Recycle and BravoBride offer tablecloths, signs, vases, and bridesmaid shoes, among other items, that have already been used in other weddings.
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Or, if you're playing host, you might take the time to arrange the rental of tables and chairs, flatware, glassware and tablecloths.
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He runs a small factory in Los Angeles, and he has a contract from federal offices for sets of tablecloths and napkins.
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There were no tablecloths, no chandeliers, no elaborately carved and upholstered chairs that might have come from a garage sale at Versailles.
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In fact, if pizza were only ever served in restaurants with tablecloths and glassware, it wouldn't be one of America's favorite foods.
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For her aerial-silks number, Ms. Kichtchenko uses a rope that looks as if it were made of red tablecloths stitched together.
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They served Hunan and Cantonese foods on linen tablecloths to bejeweled, curious diners at places like Shun Lee Palace in New York.
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It was half past two and the restaurant was empty, a void of crisp white tablecloths, punctuated by tacky, oversized ceramic vases.
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Food and farm leaders were seated at round tables with deep blue tablecloths and wildflower arrangements set under draped globe string lights.
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Guests convene in an open-plan barn with high rafters and several communal wooden tables, laid with white-and-red stitched tablecloths.
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The family coaxed crocheted tablecloths and hand-embroidered pillowcases into overstuffed suitcases, eager to travel before the looming March 16 revised travel ban.
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He'd been scrambling to turn 20 donated red tablecloths into red cloaks for the protesters after months of campaign work for Doug Jones.
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Crate & Barrel: 2250% off dinnerware, wine glasses, flatware, tablecloths and runners, placemats, napkins, napkin rings andselect serveware, Up to 215% off outdoor furniture.
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Bourdain's first summer kitchen job at a dive, The Flagship (aka The Dreadnaught), in Provincetown, Massachusetts, was basically Brennan's without the white tablecloths.
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With candles, tablecloths, pillow covers, candles, and more in classic holiday designs, from sequins to snowflakes, it gives us that nostalgic holiday feeling.
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Somehow the glamour of the country-opera circuit fades when everybody's wrapped in blankets, tablecloths and even trash bags to stave off hypothermia.
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Wilderness Safaris provided her with a sewing machine and hired her to make napkins, tablecloths, staff uniforms, and other textiles for their camp.
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Containing nearly 90 objects the exhibition includes everything from crude cartoons and doodles on torn tablecloths to bronze sculptures and monumental oil paintings.
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The restaurant is smartly and graciously outfitted with stripes of stone flooring, stylish lighting, a carpet and tablecloths, and has an intimate bar.
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Wedge salads, baked clams and a cheeseburger give you some idea of the menu, and red-checked tablecloths are part of the décor.
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In the eighties and nineties, Gotham's owners sought to class up the neighborhood with white tablecloths and the chef Alfred Portale's tuna tartare.
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They often provide opportunities to tour, view printing demonstrations, make your own designs and buy items — from place mats and tablecloths to clothing.
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For a book design that called for its cover to be wrapped in wine-colored cloth, townspeople contributed wine-colored tablecloths, shirts, and dresses.
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On Valentine's Day, hundreds of White Castles across America turned into sit-down restaurants decked out in plastic hearts, pink balloons and red tablecloths.
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On your dress pants, on your fancy couch, on your carpet, on your tablecloths—no surface is safe from their reign of fluffy terror.
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Around a dozen bodies, some already covered with tablecloths taken from nearby restaurants, lay on what is one of France's best known seaside roads.
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Dining | Long Island Remember when Italian restaurants had white tablecloths, crystal chandeliers and tableside carts staffed by waiters who boned fish and flamed sauces?
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There were soaring Art Deco columns framing enormous arched mirrors; little round tables covered in crisp white tablecloths beneath rotund black-and-white chandeliers.
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These restaurants have reintroduced noise-blotting carpets and tablecloths — and they're making quiet dining a luxury for those who can afford to pay, Ferst writes.
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So you might want to also order a few entrees, pull out the fancy tablecloths and light some candles for a romantic dinner at home.
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What happens instead, is that those potential dribbles just return to the rest of the flow, saving napkins, tablecloths, and shirt sleeves from getting strained.
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The menu is a throwback to retro Italian dining and the décor follows suit, with its dark paneled walls, checkered tablecloths, and plastic floral arrangements.
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Your parents fed you supermarket cake on beautifully branded, plastic tablecloths and prayed that you didn't ruin the whole event by spontaneously crying or vomiting.
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It was cheap and colorless, except for orange-and-white-checked tablecloths, but cakes were displayed, and pies with red filling; the overhead heater roared.
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Hillary Clinton, 68, has said if she occupies the Oval Office, her spouse wouldn't be tasked with picking out china and tablecloths or entertaining guests.
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The eatery, which seats 120, is a mash-up of red and white checkered tablecloths and modernist murals and paintings from friends of Mr. Alefantis.
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Bedspreads, sheets, tablecloths, scarves, and miscellaneous fabrics in beautiful block prints are on the left wall (from $35 for a scarf to $80 for bedspreads).
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Until you step into Niros, a garden of tranquillity with yellow tablecloths, plush booths and mirrored walls and ceilings made to look like arched windows.
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The oblong Dining Room is a symphony in tones of beige and honey, from the irregular stone flooring to the plush upholstery and the tablecloths.
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She pulled archival prints from Dedar fabrics for the sofas and armchairs (and, elsewhere, the curtains and tablecloths) and curios from Piva Antiques in Milan.
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Room service, as we imagine it in the movies, with white tablecloths and silver cloches, has long been in decline, even at the fanciest hotels.
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We bought a bunch of items on Amazon, too, including a cake topper, tablecloths, cake knife and lifter, and plastic plates and forks for cake.
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You can either sit inside the restaurants on metal stools or lounge in the common area on communal picnic tables covered in floral vinyl tablecloths.
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If I can't sit down at the table with the lace tablecloths, I will not sit out there in the yard and eat on the ground.
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Walk into a Michelin-starred restaurant today and you may find rustic tables and diners in sneakers instead of white linen tablecloths and waiters in coattails.
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They also quickly dismissed a residence hall's annual invite-only dinner, in which lobster fettuccine is served and white tablecloths are used, as "not the norm."
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Kennedy instructed a giant tent be erected on the lawn of Mount Vernon, decorated to a tee with yellow tablecloths and flowers and lit by candlelight.
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A Waffle House spokesperson told Simplemost that customers will also be treated to white tablecloths, candlelight, festive decorations and a jukebox playlist of appropriately-themed songs.
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Ice bucket water and recycled air conditioner water is used for washing floors and general cleaning, and linen tablecloths and napkins have been done away with.
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It was a simple space, with red-tiled walls and paper napkins, but there were tablecloths, chandeliers and water glasses, and even someone to serve you.
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She covered the restaurant tables with the famous Damascus aghabani tablecloths and hung window frames on the wall with views of the Syrian countryside pasted inside.
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The windows on West 11th Street are still impressively wide; the tablecloths are still white; the chairs are still black, high-backed and convincingly Secession-ish.
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At a fancy place called Via Veneto, where the tablecloths are a crisp white and the waiters are appropriately surly, we ordered our first Calabrian meals.
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To make the footwork thornier, the tablecloths are pulled off as the men dance by the beleaguered bartender, who is just trying to close for the night.
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He has also formed dreamy sunsets out of found objects—including parachutes, boat sails, wedding tablecloths, and vinyl—mirroring the film's obsession with adventure, trash, and ephemerality.
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So numerous were the bodies that to protect their dignity, people had covered some of them with tablecloths snatched from the restaurants lining the Promenade des Anglais.
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It was a quiet wine bar with white tablecloths and candles, where the servers were mostly old gents in crisp white dress shirts and black pants. Perfect.
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They spend the next couple of hours sitting at round tables covered in white tablecloths coloring paper dolls, chatting, and giggling as J-pop fills the room.
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Compared to the New Nordic restaurants that have become Denmark's culinary signature, Frederikshoj, with its white tablecloths, quilted leather chairs and hushed dining room, feels comfortingly retro.
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Meals come on white tablecloths, maids do the laundry and a car and driver are always waiting to whisk them away to important meetings or glittering parties.
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The event was held in a large, low-ceilinged room at a community center, decorated with black tablecloths and a red ribbon around each black-draped chair.
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There are brick walls, white tablecloths and wines on display at this traditional Northern Italian restaurant, which serves dishes like linguine with white clams and chicken scarpariello.
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They really get into spilling the contents of full glasses all over the tablecloths, and are so loud that all the other guests complain about the noise levels.
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It was immediately clear from the tablecloths and Amtrak-emblazoned cutlery that Peggy was right: This meal would be much better than the one on the previous train.
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I draped two plastic tablecloths over an oval Harkness table and then decorated it to look like an Elizabethan dining hall table, so yea, I take tablescapes seriously.
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So, whenever governments get together to present some new accord, it is always done in style — in expensive suits on rich tablecloths with beautiful bouquets bearing silent witness.
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Scene City 8 Photos View Slide Show ' Some fashion dinners aim to impress with fine china, crisp white tablecloths and fussy cuisine better suited for Instagramming than eating.
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The formality of Matsalen — tasting menus and tablecloths — has been stripped away and replaced by a more casual style, with blond-wood tables and plates meant for sharing.
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Guests who make reservations will be treated to tablecloths, candles, and decorations on their tables, as well as a romantic playlist from the jukebox to set the mood.
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It's hard to look at the Odeon's slowly revolving ceiling fans, hanging globe lamps, white tablecloths and burgundy banquettes without the words "steak frites" popping into your head.
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An Uzbek eatery offers fragrant meat dumplings along with a generous helping of post-Soviet kitsch in the form of glittering gold lamé tablecloths and spangled voile curtains.
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But the jigsaw-like mosaic of black-and-white photos on the wall, the classic red checkered tablecloths, and the oldies playing over the loudspeaker stirred something in me.
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When students enter the room — decked out with tie-dye tablecloths and purple beanbags — staff from a nonprofit called the Holistic Life Foundation ask students to explain what happened.
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Beneath large crystal chandeliers hanging from high palace ceilings, they adorned tables with crisp white tablecloths and bright colorful floral displays nestling among the royal family's valuable table settings.
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Overlooking the bobbing sailboats in the port of La Savina, this is one of the more formal places on the island, with its white tablecloths and elegantly prepared seafood.
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They ate with gilded forks and knives off gold-embroidered plates at tables draped with luxurious red-and-white patterned tablecloths and decorated with centerpieces of roses and lilies.
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There are two major dining rooms: a casual one with bare wood tables and a raftered ceiling, and a slightly more formal one with white tablecloths and comfortable chairs.
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Coco Pazzo, which opened in 1988 and was forced to close 10 years ago, proved that his Tuscan approach could work with white tablecloths on the Upper East Side.
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Like with any other kind of wedding, there will have to be tradeoffs; if providing vegan catering is the most important, don't stress because your venue uses silk tablecloths.
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It was a warm day in mid-September when Ponomorev and Voronenkov sat on the terrace of Korona, a restaurant in Kiev with white tablecloths, expensive crystalware and hookahs.
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Today, Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly is walking casually through Georgia's defense like a Costco, sampling all the weak sauce they're dabbing on flimsy paper plates on tacky tablecloths.
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Today, on a blazing afternoon in late August, the hotel's air-conditioned dining room, with its thick, bleach-white tablecloths and napkins, is a welcome reprieve from the heat.
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The homey old-world scene is set by red and white checked tablecloths, stucco walls dotted with copper pots and pans and, most of all, the friendly staff and owners.
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The servants in a grand house went around cutting off the stamens from arrangements of day lilies so they wouldn't stain furniture or the tablecloths, a problem I have encountered!
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To match the restaurant's breezier fare, the walls will be bathed in bright pops of blue and yellow, and the dark wood tables will be covered with loud floral tablecloths.
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Gone are the golden days of rail when wealthy snowy-bearded travelers in three-piece suits dined on starched tablecloths while nervously flicking the brass clasp of their pocket watches.
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The airline and its regional arm Mandarin Airlines have stopped from Monday serving hot meals and replaced tablecloths and napkins with paper towels on cross-strait and Hong Kong flights.
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Steak with "vinegar peppers" at the Italian steakhouse with the red-checked tablecloths, at the pizzeria on the boardwalk, at your mother-in-law's on a Sunday afternoon with family?
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When I entered the dining room one afternoon, my expectations were low: Though the pumpkin-colored stucco walls and tables covered in checkered plastic tablecloths were immaculate, the place was empty.
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Beginning in October, many overnight trains east of the Mississippi River bid adieu to the traditional white tablecloths and custom-cooked meals that hearkened to an earlier age of rail travel.
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Shyema and I Ubered from Zona Centro to Zona Rio to eat at Plascencia's Mision 183, Tijuana's most elegant restaurant, all white tablecloths and dim lighting in a nondescript office building.
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When you have a fresh red wine stain, pouring an anthill-style mound of table salt on the spill will help to pull it out of tablecloths (or furniture or carpets).
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Is it more or less useful to pay for a dozen cotton tablecloths to be shipped to you for one day or use the silk-woven ones your venue uses regularly?
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The sober room — checkered floor, white tablecloths — was empty save for a table of three dweeby Swiss guys trying to eat pencil-thin foie gras canapés with a fork and knife.
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But because of insufficient funding and a lack of available experts to operate the equipment, much of it was unplugged and covered by tablecloths when Pitsiladis toured the lab with graduate students.
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With the rise of the Nazis, her father, Julius, who sold fabrics for traditional, embroidered tablecloths and household linens, was forced to close his shop and become a door-to-door salesman.
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"Lee knew all the best places to go, and they got beautiful tablecloths at D. Porthault and silver at Puiforcat," recalled the director Sofia Coppola in a story for T in 2013.
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It is usually tame, romantic, the food approached like a one-kneed engagement proposal—the pristine white plates, the meticulously arranged duck breast beside dainty vegetables, the crisp geometry of the tablecloths.
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Tables covered in white tablecloths were adorned with white and green floral arrangements, tall white candlesticks, and White House china (it was not immediately clear which administration's table setting was used Sunday evening).
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In the month since it opened, Pizza Veterano, a restaurant where all the tablecloths are camouflage print, has become an improbable hit, in part by focusing on an underserved segment of the population.
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That freakish kind of fire has a tendency to happen to fabrics that have previously been stained with cooking oils, like on the towels, tablecloths, and chef whites you'd find in a restaurant.
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In the charming elegance of Gage & Tollner, which had been in that brownstone serving food on its mahogany tables covered with immaculate white tablecloths since 1892, I ate my lobster tail with glee.
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This remarkable garden is just a few minutes walking distance from the dim lighting, white tablecloths, lengthy wait lists, and 21-course tasting menu at Shewry's establishment, one of the world's best restaurants.
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Suddenly, 70 invitations go out in the mail, people are being asked to provide tables, tablecloths, food, labor, decorations, flowers from their gardens, music, photography, transportation for her mother ... you get the picture.
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"Forty years ago, I started working downtown and would come here for lunch," Carrie Matteson said the day after Thanksgiving, sitting for breakfast at one of the tearoom's many tables with white tablecloths.
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LULU KITCHEN & BAR This restaurant from Marc Rowan, who owns Duryea's Lobster Deck in Montauk, is casual up front, with tablecloths in the back and a wood-burning oven in an open kitchen.
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The action slows, "Annie's Song" starts, and as K (Steven Yeun) helps the bruised Mija up, the rest of the ALF clash, amusingly, with the corporate employees, fighting them off with umbrellas and tablecloths.
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Table decorations can elevate both casual and formal meals, but for something as grand as a Christmas dinner, having festive tablecloths, runners, dinnerware, and even seasonal flowers as centerpieces can go a long way.
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In the early 1950s, her parents would take her to the Newarker, a sophisticated and theatrical restaurant with white tablecloths, a clear view of the planes and showstopping entrees like flaming skewers of meat.
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Antiques stores and fine porcelain purveyors are thick on the ground in these parts, but for fun, fresh and highly affordable housewares (stylish tablecloths, mohair throws and boldly patterned sheets) pop into Zara Home.
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And if we choose to do a TV dinner, which is usually on a Sunday, everything is placed on trays with little napkins and little tablecloths and nicely plated with everything laid out properly.
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Yet with its mix of traditional tablecloths and fresh wild posies, the room couldn't feel less pretentious, especially when a table spontaneously burst out in the traditional, emotional polyphonic village songs, as often happens.
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The low-ceilinged dining room had white tablecloths and cushy purple armchairs, and at each meal we circled the buffet island selecting duck or Florentine fish, couscous or rice, stuffed zucchini or mixed vegetables.
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When Sandra was just 6 years old, they sent her to live with her maternal grandparents in El Paso, where she attended a finishing school, ate on white tablecloths and studied Latin and Greek.
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Sing Sing Sandwich Shop Step down into this slightly subterranean sandwich shop and enter a cozy interior with loads of plants, red and white gingham tablecloths, and even a Patrick Nagel print behind the counter.
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I prefer dusk and the windows slowly blackening, the soft orange light from the gilt sconces that masks the grease stains on the tablecloths and the calcium spots we might have missed on the wineglasses.
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Mumbai's Britannia & Co., a destination for Parsi cuisine, was founded in 1923 and is still crowded today with old tables covered with checkered tablecloths and a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the peeling-paint walls.
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The space opens up as you enter the dining room, with chandeliers that look like concentric rings of votive candles suspended above the white tablecloths, each of which is set with a single white taper.
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There will be no tablecloths, no open kitchen — just a big bar in the center of the room and an à la carte menu that balances creative vegetable dishes and local meats, fish and poultry.
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As plates of grapefruit salad were laid out on floral tablecloths, the defense secretary kept his eyes on his meal as well-known journalists debated among themselves whether a war with North Korea was possible.
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Repurposing former DSNY uniforms and other textile goods sitting in department storage —such as tablecloths, tents, aprons, and even parts from sanitation trucks — he created a 16-piece ZWDSNY collection that generated virtually no waste.
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"It was a down-home barn theme with checkered tablecloths, sunflowers and homemade picnic food (lovingly put together by myself and my mother-in-law)," adds the 39-year-old actress of the low-key bash.
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The frilled borders of the smaller weavings seem to suggest the torn edges of spiral-bound notebook pages, though curator Laura Mott likens these constructions and their larger counterparts to domestic objects like napkins and tablecloths.
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The atmosphere on Thursday evening was festive: attendees were jam-packed into the Indian Treaty Room, chatting before the vice president's arrival with some gathered around bar-height tables set with sunflowers and bright green tablecloths.
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But Zhang and Lu were so friendly, I couldn't imagine them getting all PLA on anyone even if they started laying down Japanese flags as tablecloths and shooting down the toy planes with an air rifle.
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Uncles and friends, cousins and second cousins, and cousins who knows how many times removed pulled folding chairs up to folding tables, which were covered with paper tablecloths and laden with fried chicken and sweet tea.
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This version is Italian-American cooking in its purest form and will make you want to buy checkered red-and-white tablecloths and drink wine from little rocks glasses while Frank Sinatra croons softly in the background.
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Fraser has said that his inspiration for the Loyal was the American tavern, but the white tablecloths and elegant serving pieces—scallop-edged china, dainty silver bowls, gravy boats galore—evoke something closer to Aunt Sukie's parlor.
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Along with a set of plates, flatware and glasses, she keeps an assortment of tablecloths and napkins in a range of warm whites, soft grays and rustic tans in a supply closet dedicated to her entertaining essentials.
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Upstairs, we visited the Fabrica's small shop, selling a rainbow of napkins and tablecloths made on the Illsley handlooms, and garments by the Japanese designer Minori Kobayashi, who came to Uruapan in the 252s and never left.
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When he wasn't making things (sculptures, jewelry, theater costumes, hand-painted tablecloths), he was collecting them: A small selection from his significant holdings in Brazilian folk art, much of it Roman Catholic in theme, is in the show.
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It will be a one-stop shop for items like espadrilles embellished with anchors and elephants from House of Pom, and whimsical tabletop decorations, with napkins, tablecloths and place mats featuring lobsters, crabs and coral prints from Pomegranate.
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The décor—dark wood, salvaged antiques, no tablecloths—is unchanged, and, on a few recent evenings, the crowd seemed to be composed of those same twentysomethings, now in their thirties and forties, discussing child rearing and film rights.
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Some red leather booths and checked tablecloths keep the style of a pizzeria that claims to be New York's first in 1905 (it moved a few blocks when it reopened in 1994 after closing for a few years).
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The starched tablecloths looked intimidatingly expensive and made me worry about the cost, but he seemed to sense this, and said almost immediately that I should eat what I wanted, that tonight our date would be on him.
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On the day of the dinner, 6,500 party-goers dressed in elaborate, all-white ensembles will gather at 553 predetermined locations scattered throughout the city, carrying their picnic baskets and lugging their own folding tables, chairs and tablecloths.
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And while the chefs of Chef's Table often get to cook in fancy restaurants with white tablecloths for well-heeled guests, the chefs of Street Food are cooking for the people, retaining the cultural memories of their country.
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Anokhi's expansive Jaipur emporium is often the first shopping port of call for top international designers and sophisticated travelers from India and abroad thanks to their vast, high-quality range of well-priced dresses, kimonos, bedding, tablecloths and gifts.
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Elsewhere in town, at sprawling Brazilian steakhouses with white tablecloths and marble-topped buffets, waiters parade the hot skewers through the dining room, brandishing knives, and cut the meat so it drops as if from heaven to your plate.
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This hotel and restaurant, which opened last February, may be ensconced in rural England, but its menu and sensibilities are pure well-heeled London — with a touch of beach culture: white and blue-gray walls, minimalist furniture and crisp white tablecloths.
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She also put on the Trump administration's first State Dinner, for France, overseeing all of the decisions for the evening, from the White House Kitchen Garden herbs served as part of the meal to the silver, china, tablecloths and seat cushions.
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The room was grand and traditional in decor — tables were covered in white tablecloths and laid with fine china and fancy silverware, guests sat on wooden chairs with leather upholstery and red sofas, and huge chandeliers hung from the ceiling.
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Meanwhile, Seattle fine-dining outpost Canlis announced Thursday that it is ditching its white tablecloths and dinner service and instead pivoting to three new concepts: a fast-casual breakfast, a drive-through-style burger lunch, and a meal delivery service.
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When Obama arrived for the first time as president in 2009, his destination was a homey bistro on a Parisian side street -- all warm light, red-and-white tablecloths, and the constant din of clinking glasses and potatoes being thrust into hot oil.
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Trump was responsible for every aspect of the formal dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, from the hand-selected ivory tablecloths to the menu, which the first lady designed to meld American food with French influence.
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At the stately Hotel Armenia, which caters to the diaspora visiting the capital of the disputed mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, dear to the hearts of Armenians everywhere, the dining room clings to the traditional starched tablecloths and, of course, aged Armenian cognac.
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They've since moved to a larger atelier just down the block and have expanded from wallpaper prints to journals and bespoke textiles, such as the pale blue tablecloths with spiraling lilies and roses they made for a recent Dior event at Versailles.
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Nina Garcia, the newly installed editor of Elle, was seated across from Mr. Kors at a long table covered in green-and-white-checkered tablecloths, Mason jars filled with red roses, and votive candles that gave the room a warm, flickering glow.
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It is when that same designer — Emily Bode — turned a love of vintage textiles like African country cloth, ticking torn from old French bedding, tablecloths embroidered with pirates' treasure maps and a storytelling gift worthy of the Moth into an award-winning career.
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Widowed young, turned away by her husband's impoverished people, with three daughters to raise and only the needlework to keep them, monogrammed handkerchiefs and lace-edged linen tablecloths, a life beyond my powers of narrative comprehension, notations I cannot translate from ancient script.
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If sumptuous flavors and a living-room-like setting with bright carpets and heirloom batik tablecloths were Shavi Lomi's contributions, promoting organic food and natural wine was the province of Vino Underground, a popular natural-wine bar and salon just around the corner.
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Fresh Kills gives an initial impression of austerity: the long, narrow room has walls of rich wood with visible knots and nails, a low swoop of a ceiling, booths with uncushioned seats, and, in the front, low little tables with curiously unmoving leather tablecloths.
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I'm noticing once again the singular things I noticed as a boy: the hidden springs, the sound of silence, nap of tablecloths, sea taste of iodine, the scents of clothes, raw grain of wood, a scrambling interface of ebbing tide and incoming tide race.
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He says that while the kitchen has been updated, everything customers see — red-checked tablecloths, a wall of boxing photos, saloon lighting — is the same as it was when he bused tables and washed dishes for his father as a teenager in the early '80s.
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Billowing black moiré anoraks swallowed the head while oily jumpsuits were lit by blinking red hazard lights; leather motocross body suits were spliced with fragments of red scarves and cloudy party dresses patched together from the odds and ends of nighties and shawls and tablecloths.
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There are three Tartinery locations around town, but the newest one, in the center of the lower-level dining concourse in Grand Central Terminal, has some new features, notably tablecloths, a first not only for these restaurants but also for the terminal's food hall.
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Ginzel then places the framed napkin — with its floral design — inside another box-like frame with a glass front, creating a wall-mounted object that embodies manifold associations without citing or parodying them: embroidery samplers; plastic tablecloths from a diner or chain restaurant; still-life painting.
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A few doors down, Ebneter Biel uses a fleet of embroiderers to stitch tablecloths and napkins with everything from local fauna to seminude cabaret dancers; it also sells lederhosen for children and traditional leather Appenzeller belts that are fascinatingly studded with metallic cows, horses and starry emblems.
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We've got a lot of exciting events planned, from onstage conversations with people like Alex Wagner and Sam Kass talking politics at the dinner table with Ginia Bellafante, to the chance to eat street food prepared by chefs who usually cook for starched tablecloths and shimmering crystal.
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He has tinkered with the space, creating a cafe area that spills onto the street, shortening the bar for tables, adding floral-patterned wallpaper, and, in a daring move, using tablecloths in the main dining room: Sixty SoHo Hotel, 60 Thompson Street (Broome Street), 7183-219-8119, bistrotleo.com.
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At Bite of Hong Kong, a Cantonese restaurant that opened in Chinatown last spring, the trappings are classic: great round banquet tables draped in red tablecloths, lazy susans making idle revolutions and those faintly prehistoric fish that land on giant plates, swimming in ginger, still flaring their fins.
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Going to the fireworks on July 212 is an annual family ritual in Nice, a time for picnics on the beach — and, when the beach is too full, for spreading tablecloths on the meridian of the waterfront road known for more than 29 years as the Promenade des Anglais.
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McMahon, who also creates custom pieces for private clients, helped bring to life the dining room at Lil' Deb's Oasis — a tropical fantasy of a space with pineapple-colored walls and floral vinyl tablecloths — and the restaurant's owners, Carla Perez-Gallardo and Hannah Black, often wear Bayarsaikhan's designs.
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The recent phase of activism is impressively creative: Farmers in Isfahan Province have turned their backs on imams during Friday prayers in protest against the government; small-business owners in the town of Marivan rolled out a long stretch of empty tablecloths on the street to symbolize poverty.
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The tables, between 10 and 15, are covered in gold, taffeta tablecloths and adorned with massive floral centerpieces of yellow roses (more than 2,500 were used) and sprigs of golden wattle, the national flower of Australia, which has fuzzy, sphere-shaped buds of bright yellow and green leaves.
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Many of the Anangu themselves live in a trash-strewn community near the rock that is closed to visitors, a jarring contrast to the exclusive resorts that surround the monolith, where tourists seated at white tablecloths drink sparkling wines and eat canapés as the setting sun turns Uluru a vivid red.
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Grant K. Gibson, an interior designer in San Francisco, doesn't own a vacation rental, but for the past three summers he has rented a cottage in Castine, Me. He brings his own vases, candles, sheets, pillows, tablecloths, plates, silverware, paper lanterns and other accessories to make it feel more like home.
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Located in a creaky wooden house on a quiet residential street, this year-old craft-beer emporium is dowdy enough to please her sense of design — white lace curtains, cheap fans, plastic seats, cheesy tablecloths — and stocks enough global suds and local Thai microbrews to inebriate her whole sewing circle for a year.
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They are now used to keep food fresh and tablecloths flat, clip gels or diffusers to film lights, correct the hang of curtains, hold lit matches longer, squeeze out the last bit of toothpaste from a tube; in short, for so many essential tasks that humans may well wonder how they ever managed without them.
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Maquis Tante Marie Located at Pram Pram beach, this easygoing open-air restaurant has bamboo furniture, bright yellow tablecloths and a big wooden bar where you can find popular dishes from across Ghana and the Ivory Coast, including nyama choma (grilled spiced mutton) and fish yassa (grilled in a sauce of preserved lemons and onions).
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Meals at Arniano are served outside under the grapevine-covered pergola facing the valley or in the kitchen's open dining room, where the table is always set with linens and decorative objects the family has collected over the years: white jacquard tablecloths, watery blue ceramic plates and a jumble of vases from local flea markets.
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Imagine a scene set at an elaborate gala: a production is likely to buy the flowers and set dressing like tablecloths, wallpaper, plates, and other on-screen items, but also off-screen necessities like batteries and tape and flame retardants and zip ties, rope and food and beverages, clothing and shoes, office supplies and electronics.
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And I gotta tell you — once I shifted my focus, I was able to spend a lot more time talking with my fiancé about our hopes and fears for our new married life and why we had chosen to do this together, and a lot less time talking about what color tablecloths our guests would spill food on.
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At the haute-bourgeois "Gooise" houses, for example (named for Het Gooi, a prosperous region in the middle of the Netherlands), classical music is played, apéritifs and wine are drunk, and manners are formal; residents eat on tablecloths under a chandelier, and dinner is served on individual plates, as in a restaurant, rather than family style, on platters.
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My landlords lived upstairs, among clear vinyl tablecloths and a shrine to Pope John Paul II. I ate bigos, a savory, tart stew cooked so long that its many meats fell to nearly spreadable shreds, and incredibly cheap pirogi in fluorescent restaurants, where I would laugh in amazement at how much pork and potatoes five bucks could get you.
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Benjamin, who asked to be identified by his first name only, is one of thousands of people who attended White Castle's annual Valentine's Day Dinner, an event where couples reserve tables to dine-in at the slider-peddling fast food chain, which is decked out with a full wait staff, festive red and pink heart decorations, and tablecloths.
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Though fashion-forward Chinese youths now consider the textiles somewhat outdated, the Chinese Printed Blue Nankeen Exhibition Hall (637 Changle Road, No. 24) aims to keep this craftsmanship alive by stocking a huge array of pieces made by artisans in rural Anhui Province, including cotton and silk scarves (from 2403 renminbi), tablecloths (from 435 renminbi) and women's blouses with Chinese embroidery (695 renminbi).
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One of her signature dishes—a round of butter-fried charcoal bread with salted cream, sturgeon caviar, and a supple 63-degree sous vide yolk the texture of ripe Brie—would feel right at home on the crisp white tablecloths of Jean-Georges, while a simple salad of Chinese kale topped with dates, toasted almonds, and a crispy squid ink-tinted tuile feels more freeform.
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Among my North Brooklyn cohort, dinner-party aesthetics have in recent years tended toward the clean and spare (rumpled linen tablecloths, white plates, nondescript stemware), so I love the idea of switching that up and buying one of these in each color to offer as water or wine glasses among friends, or even just to sip from when I wake up in the middle of the night.
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Over the course of two and a half days, I encountered the highest density of traditional crafts from around the world in any one place: Azerbaijani jewels, Laotian silks, Mexican vicuña ponchos, Malian indigo dresses, Rwandan coiled baskets, Ukranian peasant shirts, Hungarian hand-loomed tablecloths, Syrian blown glass, Czech pottery, Uruguayan knits, Palestinian embroidery, Moroccan boucherouite rugs and Nigerian silver and leather work — it goes on and on.
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Tucked into a strip mall, Cafe Jaavy — the younger sister of the longtime local favorite, Los Gallitos — has colorful oilcloth tablecloths, a salsa bar and a breakfast menu that includes savory Mexican breakfasts like chilaquiles (tortilla chips simmered in a flavorful, mildly spicy sauce, served with beans and eggs, $9.50) and standout huevos rancheros with chorizo ($9.50), plus sweeter offerings like banana and berry crepes ($8.99) and generous smoothies ($4.50) made with fresh fruit.
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In a 2010 article in the Wall Street Journal, reporter Katy McLaughlin documented how the move toward eating in concrete boxes coincided with a shift in decor and other design features, turning many restaurants into "noise traps": Upscale restaurants have done away with carpeting, heavy curtains, tablecloths, and plush banquettes gradually over the decade, and then at a faster pace during the recession, saying such touches telegraph a fine-dining message out of sync with today's cost-conscious, informal diner.
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In the world he wrote about, it was utterly normal that an emperor ruled the country, and that it was hot in January, and that there were a few slaves in every house: Dona Beatriz was bustling back and forth between parlor and kitchen, issuing orders, chivying the slaves, gathering up clean tablecloths and napkins, and dictating shopping lists; in short, dealing with the thousand and one things that every mistress of the house has to deal with, especially on such an important day.
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And although he never buttered his own biscuits or poured his own coffee, he gave us the spark we needed to get up at 3 in the morning, pile into a 1935 Chevy and two Tin Lizzies and, loaded with eggs, milk, coffee, ham, green onions, bell peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, roastin' ears, laid-out biscuit dough, graham-crackers-for-the-kids, and sugar-tit-for-the-baby, lard, butter, grapes, yellow cake, beer, ice, worms, poles, string, buckets, skillets, tablecloths, plates, U.S. Steel Company forks, and try to get to Turkeyfoot Lake before the fish woke up.
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