Give Pita a Chance Middle-Eastern restaurants try to hold it together, while the American s staff breaks up. The Hotel Phillips makes diners feel right at home. Sometimes any old room's the dining room. Tellers used to cash checks in what's now the pocket-size kitchen. Because building a restaurant from the ground up is an expensive proposition, restaurateurs have often had to be creative in finding just the right existing space for a kitchen and dining room.
Some ideas work better than others.
KCUR 89.3's Walt Bodine still shudders at the idea of eating in a building where corpses once were embalmed. When it comes to building makeovers, sometimes less is more. At the Power Plant, diners can eat a turkey burger or a prime rib sandwich at a tidy, comfortable table in a room that once was piled with dusty coal and roaring with the sound of those furnaces. Inc. All rights reserved.