Conveniently situated on Thames Street, the restaurant beckons with a crisp, teal blue-trimmed exterior, wide windows and black-and-cream checked tablecloths.

There were checked tablecloths and live music.

The courtyard has checked tablecloths, candles in tall glasses, window boxes and a ledge bar with four metal diner stools.

This 220-seat branch of P. J. Clarke's, an 1884 saloon on Third Avenue, is full of dark wood, red leather and checked tablecloths.

Hard-edged and brushy techniques contrast the main tactics of formalist painting while converting the Modernist grid into designs redolent of drapery and checked tablecloths.

The place has stained glass panels and checked tablecloths and dark corners.

It's full of dark wood, red leather and checked tablecloths.

Chez Dominique doesn't have checked tablecloths, but it has the look and feel of heavy-beamed, timeworn French bistros everywhere from the French countryside to the theater district.

A Map Off Piazza del Plebiscito, the upstairs restaurant offers checked tablecloths, a constantly going TV and cheap and filling meals.

A busy, homely place with terracotta plates and cups, checked tablecloths, and family groups.