Opposite page: At the entrance to Parallel 37 restaurant in San Francisco’s Ritz-Carlton, free-edge sycamore slabs are dramatically suspended over the archway. This page: The action table at the back of the restaurant, where waitstaff prepare bread and cheese and decant wine, provides an element of theater to the space. napa meets brooks brothers Invigorating a Ritz-Carlton restaurant in San Francisco www.hospitalitydesign.com April 2012 299http://www.hospitalitydesign.com