Are restaurants too loud? YES! YES! YES!

Non-regional discussions Food in the news & other media
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From NPR’s Here and Now (not heard in LA)

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“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

~ Betteridge’s law of headlines

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I think certain restaurants in certain neighborhoods set off with the intent to be loud or to attract a certain set of clientele (a la a day club/party lounge). Those are the ones I don’t make plans to visit.

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There’s a place that we love for lunch. But I can just tell from all the hard surfaces and how young the ‘patrons’ generally are that it’s loud for dinner. I considered taking an out of town friend there but didn’t for that reason.

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In the piece, they have WaPo food critic Tom Sietsema answer it. He now adds bells to his reviews to note how unbelievably loud a lot of restaurants are.

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@robert did Bauer/SF use bells? Seems that someone did. I think it’s a good idea.