The modest waterfront restaurant serves calamari and Bahama Mama cocktails to local executives and families.

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The waterfront restaurant sources all of the ingredients for its Mediterranean-inspired fare locally.

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Among the worst recent attacks were the bombing of a gay bar earlier this month, which injured six people, and the bombing last year of a Planet Hollywood restaurant on the Waterfront which killed two people.

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Legal Harborside, in the South Boston waterfront district, is the flagship restaurant of the popular Legal Seafoods chain of restaurants and attracts hungry diners with its three floors of varying concepts.

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Part restaurant, part nightclub, Anjelique sits on the Bosphorus waterfront in a three-story mansion.

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It is a big, long established seafood restaurant that looks like a tourist trap amidst the T-shirt and souvenir shops of the Seattle waterfront.

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At the waterfront, the swimming pool, empty for a decade has reopened after a paint and drain job, and a restaurant is doing a booming trade.

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When the chef Andy Ricker chose the location for the New York branch of Pok Pok, his Southeast Asian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, he went a bit off the beaten path, to the Columbia Street Waterfront.

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