Lee Hanson and Riad Nasr serve food on bare tables at their first two restaurants — Frenchette and Le Rock — but modeled the red-and-white-checked tablecloths they use at Le Veau d’Or after ...

If I’m being honest, my favorite part of Italian-American restaurants isn’t the OG red-and-white-checked-tablecloth vibes. It isn’t the swan that a burly, mustachioed server would ...

Artful innovation is all well and good. But sometimes you just want to cozy up to a red-and-white checkered tablecloth, lit by a candle stuffed in an empty Chianti bottle, and dig into a mound of ...