I remember a dinner at Marc Vetri’s Osteria where we were seated in a separate room from the main dining room. The only source of lighting were candles on the tables.
Every. Single. Table had their phones out in order to decipher the menu, or to see what food items had been delivered.
Meh.
Years back, I remember having dinner at one of the restaurants at the Colonial Williamsburg “museum”. Only candles there for lighting but, of course, it was in the historical context of the place.
Alright - showing my age here . . . but not a fan of the super dark dining rooms. But dislike it even more when the restaurant then chooses to print their menu with stupid little fonts that are hard to read even in full light - or - print their little thin italic fonts in, say, brown ink on a brown paper. It just gets stupid IMHO.
Two words: reading glasses.
I deluded myself for well over a year claiming the reason I could no longer decipher the cocktail menu at our favorite watering hole was the small font & bad lighting while borrowing my dude’s readers.
Turns out… it was my deteriorating eyeballz the entire time!
Why, lousy!!!
