Restaurant Etiquette

Here's what I want to know: Anyone feel the need to use their cellphone flashlight to read restaurant menus these days? Is it embarrassing or awkward?

It might be a naïve question of tipping etiquette, but let's face it: prices have been rising across the culinary spectrum, from that glass of craft brew to the cost of an artisanal burger. Should ...

by thegforceny 4 months ago

Increasingly a hot topic on this and other dining related sites. A piece in the Atlantic.

Seems there are two rules of thought -- that it be left on the chair (as no one wants to see a used napkin on the table or next to a dish) -- which is what I usually do; or, that it be left to the ...

I noticed he was having trouble walking when he came in, a knee problem he later divulged. So, he takes a place at the bar and puts his walking cane on the bar top the long way taking up at least 2...

Went to a place today, got a burger, fries, shot of bourbon -- you know, the usual lunch. The tab was $14.62, and I gave the server $20. She brought me back 5 singles -- apparently thinking I'd n...

I have noticed more and more restaurants posting signs restricting the use of cell phones in the dining room. Obsessive picture taking...non-stop texting, etc. How do you feel about this issue? Wou...

by katebauer 11 years ago

Just adding my $.02. Whether it's right or not for restaurants to stop seating people before their posted closing time, I would never arrive at a restaurant and expect to get served less than 15 m...

We are a couple going to Bordeaux with out 3 years old child. He is very picky, so we'll often just order an extra app for him, or give him a piece off our plates. i'm wondering how that will go in...

We had finished our meal at a new NYC area restaurant and went about paying the tab, when I double checked the totals and noticed that the gratuity had already been added to our final bill. We were...

An earlier post dealt with dining with people who don't enjoy food. Here's a reverse situation: dining with people who enjoy food so much they start picking food off your plate like French fries, f...

I will be in Japan from May 18-28 in Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. In Tokyo I am staying in Ginza and in Kyoto in Gion (Osaka will be my first destination and I have that all covered). I believe that I ...

by stevewi 11 months ago

See the attached link. -- sw

They sometimes arrive with your check asking about your restaurant experience. Do you fill them out honestly, both good and bad? Or, is it be better to talk directly to management and staff? Share ...

His way of cozying up to us, I guess. Happened recently at a popular local restaurant. In the future, please keep your hands off our table except if you are cleaning up, bringing or removing dishes...

by coldbeer 3 years ago

Just back from an extremely unsatisfying trip to an as of now, unnamed Italian establishment in, let's say Morris County. North of 80 kind of Morris County. Appetizer to entrée, over an hour. Wo...

This was at a New Jersey diner. My first thought was "how tacky." But if somebody has already decided to pay by credit card, is it really costing the diner more if they put the tip on it as well? ...

My husband is not ok with us both ordering the same thing at a restaurant even if that's what we both want... I think this might be a cultural thing. Does anyone feel the same and if so, can you he...

If you are so angry or upset about something that happens in a restaurant, can you just storm out without paying, or do you have to just pay for what you have eaten up to that point? I started wond...

by Multifoiled 2 years ago

I'm curious to hear from people as to what they are doing at their favorite restaurants that have adopted the no-tipping policy when they have been given comped drinks, dessert, etc. Since there is...