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If you want to feel like your life is something out of a hip movie, then you'd better start with dinner at Tube. The place is so post-modern that they don't have a sign out front but a video projection in the window to let you know you've arrived. It could be a restaurant/lounge or, with its subway walls, Lucite chairs and steel tables, a page out of a German cyberpunk novel. Despite the fact that much of the wait staff looks like supermodels, the servers here don't give out attitude. The menu lists food choices as liquids and solids, but the entrees are actually standard, almost middle American choices, including chicken and macaroni and cheese. At Tube, you can eat comfort food and still feel ironic. -- Joe Kurmaskie