Elaborately stuccoed French villas built 60 to 100 years ago have been turned into gracious high-ceilinged restaurants, often with beautifully set tables in gardens and on terraces.

A five-minute cab ride from downtown, this high-ceilinged, white-walled restaurant in a 1929 structure that's a classic example of Scandinavian functionalism is perched high above the fjord, with breathtaking views.

Occupying a stylish Bahraini courtyard house, the high-ceilinged restaurant has a live Latin band (on Fridays) and jazz music at other times.

B Map A high-ceilinged restaurant and lounge in the upstairs of the Brooklyn Academy of Music complex gives free shows on Friday and Saturday (some jazz, as well as R&B and experimental rock).

I passed through the wood-paneled bar into the high-ceilinged restaurant proper.

He half dozed for a while, and dreamed that he was eating dinner in a strange high-ceilinged restaurant with a long white napkin tucked into his collar.

He dreamed about the strange high-ceilinged restaurant again, with the waiters who were hooded like monks, just like he had at Mrs Kemp's, and even though he was asleep he was conscious that the dream had been curiously prophetic.

A magnificent lobby leads to the high-ceilinged restaurant overlooking the beach.

Between the high-ceilinged restaurant (mains €14 to €19), the extensive terrace (one of the best along the grands boulevards ) and the bar-lounge areas, you're sure to find your niche somewhere.