She glanced across the lobby toward a pretentious restaurant; then remarked: "One thing I remember from that long distance call.

After a week when simple peanut butter and jelly sandwiches sustained brave rescue workers, pretentious restaurants are not apologizing for their existence.

The only problem is that, since it expanded its rather pretentious and expensive restaurant, the outside tables are set up for diners too early for comfort.

My best moment in Turkey came in a pretentious, dark restaurant in Istanbul.

That would deny too much pleasure to waiters in pretentious restaurants, who love to say: "Tonight we have a lovely poached togo.

"You don't need to find wonderful food only in pretentious restaurants."

Recently I dined at a somewhat pretentious restaurant.

It sounded something like the list of the evening's specials droned by a bored waiter in a pretentious restaurant.

If people with more money than manners compete to try six different things at pretentious restaurants where servings are tiny, then sharing can be a problem.

Without its roll it was, and still is, known in pretentious restaurants as chopped steak.