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She slapped the paper down on the gingham tablecloth.

The bar's red and white gingham tablecloths look the same as ever, but its younger customers have never heard of the "preppie murder" case.

The decor is very 1970s with red-and-white gingham tablecloths.

Great pasta and stuffed calamari are served up on gingham tablecloths and there's a good wine selection.

Gingham tablecloths complete the snug atmosphere.

It is lunchtime, and an ageing waiter is laying gingham tablecloths over pavement tables.

Jim stood up quickly and slammed his cup down so hard that tea sloshed over the side onto Winona's blue gingham tablecloth.

With a flourish, he dragged aside a length of gingham tablecloth which curtained off a tiny alcove in one corner of the crowded room.

Adjacent to the Park Hotel, the Lime Tree is a stone carriage house with a wood-beamed ceiling and homey gingham tablecloths.

M Map Step inside this raucous eatery decked out in country Catalan fashion, with gingham tablecloths and no-nonsense, slap-up meals.

O Map For a homey Catalan atmosphere (complete with wine barrels, an old Frigidaire and gingham tablecloths), pop by this cheery spot.

C Map A pretty ivy-clad terrace or dark-timber tables laid with gingham tablecloths create a choice of warm atmospheres for sampling classic extremeño cooking.

Laid out on the cheerful gingham tablecloth were plates of sliced bread, a crock of fresh butter, a pitcher of milk, and a wedge of cheese.

R Map This country-style place with big windows overlooking the Piazza Vetra sports gingham tablecloths but otherwise underplays the rustic element.

D Map Loveable old-fashioned traveller haunt, with gingham tablecloths, checkerboard ceilings, and a range of cakes and breakfasts supplementing good-value curries.

It's a big, shiny, impressive beast atop a long white marble bar and it announces the restaurant's Italianate roots with no need for dinky red gingham tablecloths and an accordian player.

I had studied that picture for clues as to what I was missing: smiles, a gingham tablecloth, potted-meat sandwiches, a father with his arm around his eldest, a mother busy with the picnic.

Cypress Grill, which began as a makeshift fishermen's clubhouse in 1936, is one of the last of its kind in the state, a friendly place with blue gingham tablecloths and bottomless glasses of sweet tea.

Little has changed in the front room since the 60's, where old posters of Paris, red and white gingham tablecloths and the day's menu scribbled on a blackboard give the room a true French bistro atmosphere.

Tucked near Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina, this popular, chic trattoria, with gingham tablecloths and chintzy murals, also has some streetside seating on the quiet cobbled lane.

The ceilings were low, the light was poor, the floor linoleum was cracked, and the tables had gingham tablecloths that could have been cleaner, but the bar was quite handsome: a great, massive, old-fashioned hunk of mahogany.

The menu - including chateaubriand, oysters Rockefeller and fresh soft-shell crabs sauteed in brown butter sauce - is a lot more formal than the decor, which features rough-hewn wood beams, red gingham tablecloths, and lanterns hanging in wagon wheels.