Comments on: Those Big Tables Are Everywhere

By: Benicio Del Toro

Benicio Del Toro — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:53:28 +0000

Hi…I Googled for toro bravo, but found your page about Those Big Tables Are Everywhere…and have to say thanks. nice read.

By: Sip On This

Sip On This — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:18:51 +0000

“Is that Seat Taken?” Ummm . . . no. Go right ahead. I wanna be your best friend.

By: Sip On This

Sip On This — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:16:31 +0000

I love that you brought up the subject of community tables considering that they are popping up all over Portland. It’s the new cool thing to do, like eating cafeteria style is something of a new anomaly. All throughout early childhood I would sit in the lunch room eating homemade nibbles or nudging around some barely edible meal prepared by frowning lunch ladies. I’ve graduated from that though. I’m no longer ten and no longer in the school cafeteria.

By: Spiff

Spiff — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:04:23 +0000

I hate community tables. H-A-T-E them. I have actually chosen NOT to frequent a restaurant because I know there’s a chance that I’m going to have to eat my meal next to a total stranger. If I wanted to eat with a total stranger, I’d find someone and invite them to dinner. But I want to choose my stranger. And if I wanted to eavesdrop on a conversation, I’d just do it, I wouldn’t seek out some stupid community table to do it.
On the rare occasion that I actually get to go out and have an enjoyable meal, sans 3-year-old, I want to enjoy the company of the person I chose to eat with, and shut out the rest of the world. Am I anti-social? Maybe. Do I care? No.