With the remodel came the tavern’s first full-service bar, private dining space, and a new, farm-to-table menu created by chef Kyle Klatka. Don’t worry, spoonbread will still be served! Folks ...

A too-large dining room and a cramped kitchen led the owners of this expanded Cape in Wayland to call Diana Pauro for a redesign. Pauro, who is the founder of design-build firm Rebel Builders ...

But practicality isn’t the only reason to belly up to the bar for a meal. Sometimes — often, in fact — the bar of a restaurant is simply more fun than the dining room.

Conchy Joe's had the area’s first authentic Seminole chickee hut and bar. In 1987, Ayers added another chickee dining room and enclosed the indoor lounge, complete with a mahogany bar.