When they dine out, it is usually in a neighborhood restaurant called Miss Ruby's Cafe on Eighth Avenue.

You will dance attendance or I'll lecture you on your misdeeds, Miss Ruby, and spank your bare bot right well, miss, with the hairbrush.

I see poor Miss Ruby over there all by herself.

But that's just what happened last week when Scott Bakula invited everyone connected with "Romance Romance" to Miss Ruby's Cafe in Chelsea for a Cajun feast.

The shrub is considered very similar to the American cultivar 'Miss Ruby'.

Miss Ruby is the mysterious woman who works in Falcon Claw.

Z For the last two weeks, Miss Ruby's Cafe has featured fare from the region known as Long Island.

Ruth Bronz, who owns Miss Ruby's Cafe in Manhattan, has even devised a recipe for corn ice cream made by steeping parched corn and corn kernels in half-and-half.

A few stores are springing up, along with businesses like Miss Ruby's Restaurant, operated by Mr. Hedrick's wife, Nina.