IN THE MID-1980S, New York City was teeming with “jacket required” restaurants: Maurice, Le Vert-Galant, Italian Pavilion, Windows on the World, Da Vinci. If you hoped to sup at any of these fine dining rooms, you needed to be buttoned-up, if not fully suited. Manhattan wasn’t the only blazer-mandatory zone: The Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, Old Warsaw in Dallas and Pano’s & Paul’s in Atlanta all once demanded jackets. Times change. Most of those restaurants have long since closed and “jacket...

Source: Wall Street Journal December 26, 2019 15:22 UTC