"I design everything the way I want, " he told me, pointing to the banquettes.
Conceived as much for chilling out as letting loose, it has a long onyx-and-granite bar, a state-of-the-art sound system and plenty of beds and banquettes for lounging.
Waitresses in starched aprons make their way around a room filled with cushioned banquettes, its white walls rising to a vaulted ceiling that cocoons customers from outside chills.
If you want the best people-watching seats, take up residence at one of the booths and banquettes surrounding the dance floor and opt for premium bottle service or tableside mixology.
You can easily imagine that happening in the current location's '60s mod interior with leather banquettes, a giant seafood ice boat and vested wait staff that all give off a Cold War-era highbrow vibe.
School dinners will never be the same again with much-lauded Austrian chef Siegfried Danler-Heinemann overseeing the menu at new restaurant Pauly Saal, where Venetian chandeliers and bottle-green banquettes add a touch of 1920s decadence to the former gymnasium.
Brown banquettes upholstered in what the French euphemistically call moleskin but North Americans know as leatherette line both walls of the long, narrow railroad-car-like dining room, and there's a little bar just inside the front door where your bill is tallied and taxis are called.
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).
At tuus, in the Sofa Hotel, the decor is hip men's club--dark wood, rounded leather banquettes (but with a leafy outdoor terrace for the warmer weather)--the patrons are local celebrities, businesspeople and ladies who lunch, and the menu modern Mediterranean, meaning everything from local squid with chard to delicately formed pumpkin ravioli.
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