This is a stylish cart that will be used mostly in our dining room & on our deck.  We have used it for brunch on the deck so far, placing hot trays and food on the top shelf and the cd player on the bottom.  I'm only giving it 4 stars because of the assembly issues.  The fact that the predrilled holes on the shelves didn't line up properly wasn't a huge issue, but not having parts of the metal align properly made it challenging to put the lower portion together.