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Table One
Jessica Taylor
12/01/2003
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long-favored getaway of celebrities and socialites, the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles maintains the ultimate reassuring amenity for diners who want to keep their companions and conversation confidential: a private dining room. When a merger or acquisition is in the works, the chef’s table, known simply as Table One, affords guests—the ones who are savvy enough to know about it—a lavish, yet discreet, dining experience.
 Set in a canyon above Sunset Boulevard and occupying 12 verdant acres, the 1920s Mission-style hotel is de rigueur for executive power dining. While the Hotel Bel-Air’s famed restaurant and garden patio steal the spotlight for elite lunching, the single-table private dining room, located in the kitchen, is an irresistible draw for corporate suitors in the throes of consummating a match.
Table One, which is accessible through either the restaurant or, for greater privacy, a semi-private entrance through the back kitchen, seats up to eight people and is appointed with Provençal furnishings. A 9-foot-long window allows guests to observe the action in the kitchen, providing a suitably frenzied backdrop to the financial slicing, dicing, and grilling underway on their own side of the glass.
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