Anniversary, and a review of Ichiban

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My beloved and I celebrated our eighth wedding anniversary yesterday. Well, we celebrated a little bit: our big celebration will come this weekend when we try Trois. For our mini-celebration, we stayed a bit closer to home and went for sushi at Ichiban, in honor of the fact that our first date was at a sushi restaurant.

I have mixed feelings about

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[hokiegirl1]

Happy Anniversary!

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Thank you very much!

[quandry]

High levels of noise are actually commonly *intentional* in the restaurant industry... the idea is that if your place is noisy, it's sensory input that leads to a feeling of excitement and intensity that your patrons will react to positively. So lots of restaurant interiors are deliberately designed for the greatest amount of echo, along with stereo systems that have the volume set pretty high.

Personally I'm in total agreement with you - if I can't hear my dining companions, it's too loud, and I should NOT have to listen to a bunch of dish clatter and screaming from the servers.

[pointedview]

Based on what you're saying, it appears that industry analysts tend to be extroverts, and design their restaurants for other extroverts, instead of those of us who would like to be able to focus on our meal and our immediate companions. :p Excessive noise makes me tired. I care not a whit for seeing and being seen, and I'd suspect that most folks my age have grown out of that as well (although some of us never cared to begin with).

I can see a diner like me becoming suspicious that an intentionally-noisy restaurant is trying to distract from the food, which means they must want to hide its inadequacies.

[hehutalks]

You're blogging again! Yay!!

And Happy Anniversary. We just hit the five year mark last month. It's amazing how fast it goes.

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Thank you, and congratulations to you, as well.