An upscale restaurant in Chicago's tony Lincoln Park neighborhood is giving cell phone users a special room to handle those important calls.

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An alcove off the main dining room at Landmark has been designated cell phone friendly. The nook, which accommodates a maximum of three people, features walls padded in fake leather and snakeskin and a leather banquette, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday.

The owners said they may put battery chargers in the room for several makes of cellular phones.

"In this day and age, I don't know one person that doesn't have a cell phone," said Rob Katz, a co-owner. "And we live in a city where the weather is crazy. Why should people have to run outside to talk on the phone?"

The National Restaurant Association says about 20 percent of upscale restaurants bar patrons from using cell phones in the dining room.