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 ...

Though a white tablecloth can cost a restaurant less than ... in Williamsburg for about a decade and now owns Cafe Kestrel in Red Hook, is similarly happy to be done with what he calls the ...