Upscale Restaurants Are Dressing Down

By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times
Sun, 04/29/2012 - 12:00am

Restaurants

To attract younger people, fine restaurants dispense with pristine, quiet formality, revamp their menus, update their decor and extend their hours.Water Grill, with its attentive servers, white tablecloths and hushed formality, was long a stalwart of L.A.'s old-guard restaurant scene.

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