RESTAURANT-FINDING MAY BE OLYMPIC EVENT.Byline: Paul Burnham Finney The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times It's no secret that corporate Olympic sponsors and other savvy companies - Coca-Cola, Georgia-Pacific, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Jet Set Sports and NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. among them - have heavily booked some of the best restaurants in Atlanta during the Games to entertain top clients. So, if calling ahead to reserve a table or private room ever counted, it does now with opening ceremonies a mere 10 weeks away. The Olympics runs July 19 through Aug. 4. ``We have about 50 percent of our dinners already booked,'' said Benjamin Yang, operations director of the Buckhead Life Restaurant Group. Its lineup of nine Atlanta bistros includes the trendy Atlanta Fish Market, the southwestern-style Nava and Veni Vidi Vici, a pasta hangout with terrace dining. The chain's popular, no-reservations Buckhead Diner is a lot better than a box lunch. Among other restaurant candidates in the affluent Buckhead area six miles north of the Olympic Ring are the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead's elite Dining Room; Bacchanalia, which serves California cuisine For the local cuisine of California, see cuisine of California. California Cuisine is a style of cuisine marked by an interest in "fusion"— integrating disparate cooking styles and ingredients— and is freshly prepared using local ingredients. in a Victorian town house; and Bone's, a clubby club·by adj. club·bi·er, club·bi·est 1. Typical of a club or club members. 2. Friendly; sociable. 3. Clannish; exclusive. steakhouse with cigar smoking permitted. For a scenic getaway, the Canoe restaurant has a lovely view of the Chattahoochee River Chattahoochee River River, southeastern U.S. Rising in northeastern Georgia, it flows southwest to the Alabama border and then south, forming a section of the Alabama-Georgia and Georgia-Florida boundaries, to join the Flint River at Chattahoochee, Fla. . Don't expect to find much old-fashioned Southern cooking around town. The cuisine is almost everything else, from Cuban to French to Thai, reflecting the invasion of the Sunbelt in the 1980s by star chefs and diners who like their cooking ethnic or creative. |
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