On the left, past a tiered holder with six lit candles, is the bar, with the ten bar stools usually occupied by pre-dinner couples. Straight back past the bar, the cocktail lounge contains two circular cushioned booths on the left, which are the only smoking tables in the 125-seat restaurant. Other cocktail tables create seating for 30 in the cocktail lounge, with a small area in the rear used by a jazz quartet, providing a soft melodic background from 8 to 11 p.m for the main dining room to the right. On Sundays, the quartet is replaced by a lone guitarist. Colorful eclectic wall hangings, many of them portraits or paintings revolving around music and entertainers, decorate the walls.
Guests sometimes buy the paintings off the walls.
Young female hostesses greet and escort guests to their tables. So lush is the exotic and often flowering greenery around the courtyard edges, activity in the garden is obscured. A fresh rose emerges from a bubble-bottom vase and a black candle lamp, along with crystal wine and water glasses, completes the place setting. As of November 2000 the restaurant will use exclusively Riedel stemware, the best quality stemware you can buy. The shiny green marble floor, dark mahogany wood and the white ceiling with ornate crown molding adds to the sophistication, aided by the fact most diners are in suits and dresses.