1.   Clean your nails with a bowie knife in trendy restaurants.

2.   The hotel is surrounded by elegant boutiques and trendy restaurants.

3.   There are cafes at the beach, trendy restaurants in the Gaslamp area downtown.

4.   A trendy London restaurant serving bizarre concoctions that anyone with a brain and a stomach would dismiss as codswallop.

5.   Amid the galleries and trendy restaurants, the controversy garners hardly a scant mention.

6.   And that a trendy restaurant in SoHo is not a good place to take a walk down memory lane toward the lesbian joke incident.

7.   And while sparkling water may seem like just the latest affectation at trendy restaurants, some do offer small doses of some needed minerals.

8.   At Le Colonial, the trendy Vietnamese restaurant in Beverly Hills, one of the owners equates the lighting of a cigarette with the drawing of a gun.

9.   At Tantra, a trendy restaurant just off Lincoln Road, the floor is live grass and the furnishings Indian.

10.   At the same time, the neighborhood is being gentrified by hipsters and programmers, bringing with them coffeehouses, trendy restaurants and sky-high rents.