These tables for two's and one's are set far enough apart that ingress and egress are not problems, but close enough to foster sociability. All along the curve, people were engaging. The tenor of the whole room is sociable. Many people like to sit with their backs to the wall, and among the 101 seats in the main dining room a good proportion are in curved booths and banquettes. Background music is soft, and even though the sunken ceilings are plated in tin and there may be groups of celebratory diners, the room keeps to a comfortable buzz.
People seem to appreciate the attention to detail.
All this at reasonable prices. And the servers seem to like working here. If they don't know something, they'll ask. Ours apologized for a delay in getting entrees before we even thought to mention it. He also noted that the accompanying rock shrimp were excellent, a fact that in his travels he had learned not to take for granted.