Stephen Francis Jones
A Restaurant Architect Who Can Sex Up Dinner Time at the Mall
Having grown up in New Jersey, I’m no stranger to mall dining. In middle school, my friends and I spent many Saturday afternoons consuming pizza slices and garlic knots on our way to (or from) Claire’s Accessories. My grandmother and I shared countless lunches at Bloomingdale’s café, and my brother and I adored cookies from the mall’s Mrs. Fields. All perfectly pleasant dining experiences, but they weren’t hip. So I’m sort of surprised that the architect who designed hip places like Spago Beverly Hills, the original Lucky Strike Lanes, and …
