imbrennan:
The inability to reserve a table has long mystified me. In "season" I find that you must either eat dinner around at 4:30 or 5pm (that's drinking time, not eating time, imho) or at 8pm (by which time all the drinking ruins the eating :joke
, or else sit and wait and wait and wait!
I think I can comprehend the restaurant's reasoning, but I'm very inclined to think your fee-for-advance-reservation might not be too bad an idea!
SWR