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As many calories as this team burns, the menu here runs to a high-volume midday meal of proteins and starches served family-style at the refectory table in the back.—
Jeff MacGregor,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2022 The seven bedrooms are augmented by snugs and drawing rooms while a pantry with a refectory table provides breakfasts, as well as private lunches and dinners on request and minibars.—
Sarah Turner,
Forbes,
28 May 2021 The Hotel Charleston Cartagena was once a convent; today the refectory table at the entry holds a gigantic arrangement of heliotropes and birds-of-paradise.—
Maureen Orth,
Town & Country,
11 Jan. 2013