Why is "patio" in the Name?

This is a fairly common question that AZUR is asked. Actually, there are two reasons: 1) AZUR did not want to emphasis "bar" because our focus is on cuisine and 2) Lexington, Kentucky was about to enact a city wide "smoking ban" so we wanted to insure that our new customers would know that we had a large patio as well. We'll save the AZUR part of the name for another day as this explanation is rather long. Poster's Note: Since coining the "restaurant & patio" phrase, we have noticed that other restaurants have used "patio" in their naming as well.