Columbia Graduate Cooks Feng Shui Menus at Annisa: Ryan Sutton

Budget gourmet typically means stools that have no cushions, tables that have no linens and rooms that lack enough lighting to let you see that there’s a charge for the bread basket.

Then there’s French-Asian Annisa, a 13-table anomaly. It splurged on a feng shui consultant (just in case diners were looking for auspicious environs to devour an excellent $18 duo of lobster). Fresh lavender evokes an era when restaurants had flower budgets.