Act Two will bring our band of dwarves through the spider-infested wood, lead them to their conflict with the Wood Elves, and finally take them to the mountain, Dale, and the showdown with Smaug.

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Dale, operating in a modern stone-and-wood restaurant designed by New York's AvroKo, plays with classics, grilling the romaine in a deconstructed Caesar salad, adding Cherry Coke to the sauce in a duck tamale, and marinating sushi-grade tuna in smoky Lapsang souchong tea with, respectively, good, bad, and indifferent results.

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