Article: Beautiful platters for beautiful people: Italian delicacies and ambience rule at D.C.'s Ciao Baby.(Washington Weekend)(Dining Out)

Is it me or is Ciao Baby really as cool as it looks?

Certainly from L Street the presentation comes across as impossibly romantic. Floor-to-ceiling windows open in fair weather to display both the little bar out front and a clutch of tiny tall tables set up just above the sidewalk outside. It's kind of living theater, the kind you can eat.

And what about all the beautiful people posing at those windows? I'm thinking of the leggy women on high stools at the tall tables, their delicate raisings and lowerings of food practically a parody of grazing gazelles.

Plenty of beautiful young men go there, too. Last week one beauty balanced a book ...

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