This newcomer is a flashy and comfortable restaurant carved from a pair of brownstones.

A couple in a flashy restaurant seems to be trying to find out if they still have a future together.

The Alhambra Palace has a typically grand and flashy restaurant of the international style.

The best place to experience it is Ferry Street, the main artery, lined with cafes, shops and the better-known and flashier restaurants like Fornos of Spain.

This flashy red-tiled, red-upholstered restaurant does tremendous lunch-time Gujarati thalis for the professional set.

A few steps away was the little harbor esplanade with its flashy restaurants named Sunset and Ideal crowded with deeply tanned tourists, mostly Swedes and Germans.

Firebird is a flashy and comfortable new restaurant carved from a pair of town houses.

The Hong Kong palaces - those huge, flashy, freezing restaurants that seat hundreds of people - arrived in Chinatown long ago.

It is also easy to miss amid colorful neighbors like the old Chelsea Hotel, the McBurney Y.M.C.A. and an assortment of flashy restaurants.

One result is that South Korea is one of the few countries where ordinary artists drive sports cars and dine in the flashiest French restaurants.