I'm intrigued by Cat123's experience of crummy bar seating at Frank's Kitchen. It seems as if Frank's added the two bar seats - where none existed before - to take advantage of its growing popularity. Can't say I blame the place, but it's definitely not nice to customers. When you're popping $200 a couple, you expect a little comfort. Though I notice a number of joints have the habit of adding inconvenient seating where none existed before. There's a new table for two at Congee Queen that you'll never get me to go to - it's like sitting in the middle of a traffic island. And a good Italian resto in my part of town, the bowling-alley-shaped Trio, on Yonge St. north of Lawrence, recently tried adding a whole row of tables for two. It didn't go over well. Everyone was bumping into everyone else. Though when I peeked in the window last night - on my way to a more intelligently spaced resto further up the block - I noticed that that row of tables had been removed. I suppose customers - other than me - bitched long and hard.
Mind, if I was paying $200 a couple at Frank's, I'd insist on a real table. Or hie myself immediately to The Pasta Bar at Scaramouche.
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