Always eager to offer something new, Big Apple restaurants and bars are turning to an old and elegant ritual: drinks made tableside.

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Dishes, both refined and rustic, are presented tableside on rolling carts and trays, so you can choose what to order, a la carte.

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It also does not hurt that they heated the chorizo appetizer tableside on a flaming, pig-shaped casserole of traditional Portuguese pottery.

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