One evening, we were seated in a round corner banquette so large that waiters couldn't possibly reach diners at the center of the table.

One evening I sat in a corner banquette in the front and could have used a coal-miner's flashlight hat to see the menu.

"I have no excuse for being late," she told Debbie Bancroft, a well-dressed socialite friend in a corner banquette.

Natalie Portman was ensconced at a corner banquette, using crystal-studded chopsticks to toy with her green prawns.

Don't be surprised if the guy tucking into the salt-baked fish in the corner banquette turns out to be Ralph Fiennes.

Slipping into a corner banquette in the back, Ms. McCartney, 28, the designer for Chloe, seemed unimpressed by the marquee crowd.

The table was, as his guest had obviously requested, a discreet corner banquette.

We are seated at a corner banquette, on the other side of a glass wall from Nancy Reagan and her entourage.

Mr. Spiel and Ms. Steinberg related this story between some passionate kisses in a corner banquette on Wednesday night.

Thomas Britt, an interior designer, had a corner banquette built into a dining room at the Time Warner Center design exhibition.