The Restaurant is a dramatic restaurant, but with a calm, Zen-like appeal. The brown hues and golden lighting within the room are enhanced by candles and spot lighting, floor-to-ceiling wood and draperies that cover portions of the dining room. Abstract artwork-primarily freeform portraits of women-decorates the walls. The ceilings are high-about 20 feet, we're told-and the walls feature a mix of textures, including stone, cloth and wood, that creates a very calming effect within the dining room. Stripes appear to be a prevalent theme and are present on textiles and in lighting alike; veritable stripes of track lighting, for instance, are recessed in parts of the ceiling, above the open kitchen. Curvilinear wooden and upholstered seating, both chairs and benches, features oversized pillows for lumbar support. All in all, when you put the picture together, you feel like you're walking into a large gastronomic temple where you should be quiet and enjoy your meal, away from the modern distractions of the outside world.

The open kitchen at The Restaurant is amazing. There are separate areas within it for preparing various types of cuisine; the demonstration kitchen, for instance, includes distinct real estate for preparing Indian, Tandori and Chinese dishes, as well as a separate area in which to prepare fish and one in which to prepare its tasty little amuse bouches. Each of the kitchen staffers is outfitted with an earpiece through which he appears to be seamlessly and constantly communicating with the chef-no matter what part of the kitchen he is in. The kitchen itself spans most of the dining room and you'll see it immediately when you enter the main dining area. It juts out into the middle of the room-the part of the kitchen where the Indian bread is made is the farthest out into the dining room-providing almost everyone with a chance to watch their meal being made. Urns are placed on the kitchen counters, and small glass screens stop anything from flying out of or into the kitchen. The kitchen ceiling features a dramatic lighting fixture in the form of a large rectilinear structure with vertical lights on its sides and spot lights on its bottom; the fixture offers better light in the kitchen, yet preserves the romantic lighting within the dining room. You can either get a table right next to the preparations and watch all the action up close and personal, or you can dine a little farther away from the heat, the hustle and the bustle and simply glance over when you feel like it. The choice is yours.