The few remaining clothing stores opened their doors, while workers cleaned the windows of another hip restaurant.

The transformation of the meatpacking district, a once-gritty Manhattan industrial neighborhood that is now flush with hip restaurants, did not happen overnight, he said.

Mr. Lesort called it "a hip restaurant for everybody."

The art director amused himself by poking fun at the pretensions of the today's hip restaurants.

For the rehearsal dinner, I found a hip restaurant, one with a Yiddish name.

It is as good a tool as any for finding a hip restaurant, like Via Roma (see above).

In recent months, a jazz club and tapas bar have opened nearby, along with several small hip restaurants.

A colorful chalkboard greets diners the instant they enter the Red Dot, a hip restaurant in this antiques magnet of a river city.

N Map A charming, hip restaurant, 'the cicada and the ant' serves up simple Italian food with a smile.

It also has beautiful 1900's neighborhoods, hip restaurants, a large array of antiques shops and is, of course, the spiritual center of the Mormon Church.