The waiter looks around at the modest restaurant on the second floor of a brownstone and says: "You come back.

It's odd to find a superior apple tart in a modest Mexican restaurant.

I mean the neighborhood places, the modest French restaurants that proliferated a decade ago.

Most accommodations are still in simple cottages, some with a modest restaurant as well.

The cinema, she wondered, or a meal out in some modest restaurant?

Desserts are often where modest restaurants try to cut corners.

But when it can cost more than $1 million to start even a modest restaurant, most chefs need financial assistance.

The waterfront property, once a hotel, then a modest Italian restaurant, was purchased five years ago.

The seafood was uniformly reliable, a quality one does not always find in modest Greek restaurants.

But several modest restaurants refused to serve a dozen people for so little money.