Eating out who? Yeah, that's right; I went there. Brought a picnic lunch, too, bitches. | |
Careful, you. | |
My main priority is they don't put "experience" over good food. I remember when I was dining out once and I had a meringue for pudding, and they did this thing where they poured some sort of brandy sauce on it and set it on fire (all as part of the "experience", they later told me) and in the process ruined what looked like a quality meringue with a dodgy looking sauce, which proceeded to then burn my meal into a charred mess as the waiter couldn't figure out how to blow it out. That was a very irritating experience. | |
I hate fast, cheap food with a firey burning passion, and I also dislike the atmosphere in fast food places. But if it comes down to picking one, food every time. | |
Hmm... Food is obviously what keeps me coming back (after all, if I'm spending my precious cash when I could make it myself, it better be amazing), but I also go for the experience. I want to be able to relax. One of my favorite restaurants switched locations here and I was actually very saddened because I missed the alcoves the tables were set in with Christmas lights on everything. But food is what makes it for me, I suppose. Experience (atmosphere) is important, but ultimately secondary. | |
Food first, atmosphere second. Except at the Japaneese grills where they cook the food in front of you, because the shows just so damn awesome that I can, sometimes, enjoy that despite the fact I could get a better steak somewhere else. (Not to mention the local restaurant is pretty cheap, especially considering the quality of the show.) | |
Food is #1 importance with me, as a picky eater (pickiest in the province or my money back) I only go to places I know have items I like, and do them well. The atmosphere of the place matters, but it all depends on mood and company. Most of the time I like somewhere full-restaurant that does dark tones inside like Moxies or m'local pub Sherlocks. Hooters has some of the best food around, I just fucking LOVE that they actually have cheddar cheese sauce (nobody else does except Arby's), but I hate the atmosphere. Crappy seating, sports (ugh!) always on all the TVs, typically a redneck hangout (double ugh!), and the women... Don't get me wrong, I like the ladies, I just don't like THOSE ladies. Big tittied airheads that paw me while I order/pay like a cross between a beggar, whore, and Pamela Anderson's chest... I'm not a tits man, and while I do love to stare at their skimpy boy-shorts uniform, I'm there for food, not T&A. | |
Food is always more important to me, but the atmosphere has to be good too. | |
Food and atmosphere aren't mutually exclusive, but if I HAVE to choose, Food is what I pay for, not atmosphere. | |
Food.... Why I like my Lonestar | |
Food, but the atmosphere sometimes jumps out. I went to this high end restaurant in Chicago, and as a college student, i have no good cloths. The food was ehh (which reminds me, i must kill the person who recomended it to me) but the atmosphere was pretensious bullshit. It took me 10 minutes to get seated in a fucking empty place, and the service was slow, and grudging, like they thought i was some wanna be drug dealer. Maybe i would've gone there again, but the snooty, manhattan-wannabe moode just killed any chances of a return | |
Guess we should separate service from atmosphere... Food is most important. I won't pay for something that tastes bad, I won't go somewhere that doesn't serve to my tastes. There's this wicked looking place in NYC called Ninja of New York. Love to go in and look around, will never eat there because except for possibly a fortune cookie, there is nothing on the menu I touch. Service and Atmosphere, hard to say which would take second place. Both can change with each visit, but I'd have to say Service I guess because you are more likely to never return due to a bad server than a meal with a screaming baby ruining the mojo. So service... A fine line between being a good waitress or either a pest or never around. I don't want to sit there waiting 10 minutes for a refill on my drink, but I also don't want the server stopping by more than once to ask how the food is. For me to be happiest, and thus the best tips, I want my drinks on the table fast, refilled within 2 minutes of being empty, but little other interaction with the server until the meal is done. Hooters's servers kill it for me because they're too social (slutty) while the Old Spaghetti Factory usually blows it because the server is never topping up the drinks. Red Robin, Sherlocks Pub, and Humptys do it best around here. And lastly, atmosphere. I like it dark, that's personal preference but it doesn't change whether or not I go somewhere. Moxies has this dark wood and black modern look I just love, but it's not enough to compensate that their fries taste like wood chips. Screaming babies, bratty children, or obnoxious patrons have more of a deciding factor with me than how the rest of the atmosphere fits. Staff who don't boot out the annoyances guarantee I won't be back. | |
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I'm fairly sure that all of us here have dined out at least once in our lives. I do so as a pastime. Some people have their hobbies, good food is mine. Whenever picking an establishment out, atmosphere is a moderately important deciding point. A decent meal in a quiet restaurant is much more prefferable to steak in a crowded one.
When you eat out, which is the more important? The food or the surroundings in which it is served?