Like many Americans, we try to be careful about our fat intake. We are very impressed by restaurants that make low fat taste good. We don't explicitly judge presentation, but it inevitably has a subconscious effect on our opinions. In general, we are more concerned about food taste and texture than about quantity. We never worry about getting enough to eat.
Attentive service matters very much, and our expectations rise with the class of the restaurant.
Few things are more agonizing than sitting hungry with a mouth-watering menu before us and no one to take our order. We are more impressed by waiters who get the order right than by by waiters who memorize our order without writing. We enjoy wine but feel unqualified to judge the quality of a restaurant's wine list. We won't downgrade a place just because white zin is its featured wined. Restaurants should be clean, although we realize some slippage might occur right after a rush.