The unhurried white-glove service in the handsome two-story dining room, which accommodated all of us at a single sitting, centered our days.

Take the Setai in South Beach, which combines minimalist design with white-glove service.

Then the Japanese mess up a good thing, offering luxury models with excellent quality, gadgets galore and white-glove service, with prices that considerably undercut your own.

We ate alone in a linen-draped dining room with white-glove service by staff in gleaming uniforms.

Then we'd ride back to the house in an old countrywagon-- 'What's "French white-glove service"?'

At a rollicking place like this, you do not expect white-glove service.

Best said its Web site, under construction, will be a cyberspace version of its white-glove service.

Last month, business travelers paying full coach fare on Trans World Airlines began receiving white-glove service in St. Louis.

Don't expect refined, white-glove service at this price level.

Selling white-glove service requires a statelier pace, and no visible pressure.