I have often wondered why there are not more community tables in restaurants and cafeterias. Given the increased focus on the twin topics of digitalization and loneliness and their impact on our ...

I have often wondered why there are not more community tables in restaurants and cafeterias. Given the increased focus on the twin topics of digitalization and loneliness and their impact on our ...

Reader, I ordered the chicken. So far as I can tell, this constitutes some kind of violation of dining-out decorum, or at least shatters civilian eaters’ fantasies of what they’d do if given carte ...

At a recent dinner party, I raised a glass to say “happy birthday” to a new friend across the table. We’d be celebrating with six others over a four-course meal with cocktails, wine and three hours of ...

The first time I ever sat at a community table was in the early 1980s at Paul Prudhomme’s legendary restaurant, K-Paul’s, in New Orleans’ French Quarter. In those days, the New Orleans restaurant ...