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Article: Approachable Elegance.
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- Hotels
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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By Derek Gale, Senior Editor
Hotel restaurants dress down with table runners, but keep it classy with quality china, stemware and silver.
Just how seriously does San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants take its selections for the company's restaurant tabletops? Try this-Kimpton COO Niki Leondakis personally selected the china, silverware and stemware for the recently opened Area 31 seafood restaurant at the company's new Epic Hotel in Miami.
'I have a passion for the restaurant business, and because of all the years I spent in the business, I have a real understanding of how the consumer experiences a restaurant,' says Leondakis, who ...