There is much to be said for coming full circle, poetically and practically. The restaurant space is divided, charmingly cramped; to reach our table, we have to squeeze so intimately past a post ...

The Friends Table's menu includes items from the original restaurant and new additions ... "For us, it felt like a full-circle moment," she said. "We first opened downtown on Green Street ...

The Gallery in downtown is a new restaurant envisioned ... you can place your hand on the table and wait as fish swim toward you. Or you can trace a circle around a plate and watch flowers spring ...