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Chris Reda and Mike Romer of the short-lived Rock Candy are banking on a novel gimmick to revive their old space: Off a main room accommodating twelve tables are nine curtained-off rooms that range from a ten-by-ten-foot standard to the fifteen-by-twenty-foot "presidential suite"; each of these auxiliary spaces can be rented for $300 to $800 per evening and are attended by waiters dressed like bellboys who are ready to deliver a bottle, a brewski, some comfort food, or any other edible your heart desires. (Just give the concierge 24 hours to stock up.) Those who don't think a cubicle with a DVD player, a minibar, and a drawer full of toothpaste and Snickers bars is the height of sexiness can slip out through a sliding door to the adjoining gents' club Tens. — Daniel Maurer