[BBQMan]

I have been to Urban Flats on several occasions and decided to take my wife and one of her friends there on Saturday for lunch. My first shock was that the place was empty - virtually deserted. If you know UF, you know that there is a bar section, a center section and then one to the right. Throughout lunch there was no-one in the bar area, two tables occupied in the center section and we were the only table in use in the right section. There were three or four parties seated outside. My second shock was the menus. All the menus given to us were in truly sad shape - wrinkled and stained. Mine had a number of small sections torn out of the side. This appears to be a restaurant with a serious cash-flow situation.

I must say that the service was excellent and the food and beverages good. The ambience was quite nice if you could ignore sitting in a 'ghost town' atmosphere. We were there for what have been luncheon peak - shortly after noon until shortly after 1 PM. I truly hope this was an aberration , but strongly suspect it was not. Our continued economic decline will hit good establishments as well as marginal ones. Appears to correlate with the fact that Ruth's Cris is having problems, while McDonalds is reporting record profits.