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Acrossamerica · 09-07-2017, 02:00 PM

In my opinion - There is a significant difference between dining out and eating out. Let's look first at eating out as that is the easiest. You and your family friends etc. have enjoyed an active day of whatever and are hungry or you simply need to have breakfast lunch or supper. You want something fairly fast, tasty and most likely reasonably priced. For this you are usually willing to put up with a bit of shoddy service and attitude from a variety of service people and if everything that you receive is not 100% at least you achieved the goal. Eating out. Atmosphere is far down the list of requirements. Clean fast and tasty at a fair price. Rave reviews.

Now on to "Dining out" I equate dining out to attending an elegant symphony performance where everything from the concert hall to the orchestra to the audience itself plays a part in the evening. You can have an awe inspiring concert hall (Read restaurant interior) and a group of professional musicians but if they do not all play together at the right pitch volume and sequence the performance will not be fine (read menu selection, presentation, taste flow of courses and top level of service) Even such things as sound level in the dining room, and of course the audience. Are they respectful of the music (read are they loud and crude) are they attired appropriately for the venue. Nothing worse than sitting trough a concert or a dinner next to an unwashed or inappropriately attired person or group.
Hence Dining out requires effort from the restaurant owner to fine tune the atmosphere, the menu and to TRAIN the staff (something sorely lacking in the vast majority of NH restaurants) and then deliver it all in a flawless way. It also requires the guest to respect the effort of the establishment by not being boorish, not coming in or becoming drunk and obnoxious, and not turning up in ball hats and t shirts if the atmosphere calls for better in attire.

In my experience of the Lakes region fine dining is difficult to locate, There are a number of places that aspire to that goal but fall short for a variety of reasons. On the other hand there are vast numbers of places to eat out which seems to be the preference with most local and summer folk.

09-07-2017, 02:00 PM	#73
Acrossamerica Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 239 Thanks: 0 Thanked 133 Times in 66 Posts	Dining out VS. eating out In my opinion - There is a significant difference between dining out and eating out. Let's look first at eating out as that is the easiest. You and your family friends etc. have enjoyed an active day of whatever and are hungry or you simply need to have breakfast lunch or supper. You want something fairly fast, tasty and most likely reasonably priced. For this you are usually willing to put up with a bit of shoddy service and attitude from a variety of service people and if everything that you receive is not 100% at least you achieved the goal. Eating out. Atmosphere is far down the list of requirements. Clean fast and tasty at a fair price. Rave reviews. Now on to "Dining out" I equate dining out to attending an elegant symphony performance where everything from the concert hall to the orchestra to the audience itself plays a part in the evening. You can have an awe inspiring concert hall (Read restaurant interior) and a group of professional musicians but if they do not all play together at the right pitch volume and sequence the performance will not be fine (read menu selection, presentation, taste flow of courses and top level of service) Even such things as sound level in the dining room, and of course the audience. Are they respectful of the music (read are they loud and crude) are they attired appropriately for the venue. Nothing worse than sitting trough a concert or a dinner next to an unwashed or inappropriately attired person or group. Hence Dining out requires effort from the restaurant owner to fine tune the atmosphere, the menu and to TRAIN the staff (something sorely lacking in the vast majority of NH restaurants) and then deliver it all in a flawless way. It also requires the guest to respect the effort of the establishment by not being boorish, not coming in or becoming drunk and obnoxious, and not turning up in ball hats and t shirts if the atmosphere calls for better in attire. In my experience of the Lakes region fine dining is difficult to locate, There are a number of places that aspire to that goal but fall short for a variety of reasons. On the other hand there are vast numbers of places to eat out which seems to be the preference with most local and summer folk.