Making a Great Providence Restaurant - Part 2

Feb 17
07:33

2012

Paul Marino

Paul Marino

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If you want to get the best food Rhode Island has to offer, you better head over to a Providence Restaurant. There is plenty of great food but the necessity in Providence is going through the range of your selections to locate the best dining establishment.

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If you want to get the best food Rhode Island has to offer,Making a Great Providence Restaurant - Part 2 Articles you better head over to a Providence Restaurant. There is plenty of great food but the necessity in Providence is going through the range of your selections to locate the best dining establishment.  Now that we have established that Providence has a lot to offer the taste buds, it is time to try to understand what makes some of these fine culinary gems stand out. As I mentioned in part one, everyone always expects that the first thing I will discuss is the food, but this not the case. There are so many elements to the dining experience at a Providence Restaurant that are overlooked by lay people. I hope that my extensive experience with fine foods and the restaurant industry may allow me to help shed light on the full scope of the dining experience.

 

                In my first article of this series on how to evaluate a good restaurant in Providence, I examined the initial phase of a dining experience from the importance of good restaurant name to appropriate exterior décor.  I also discussed the traits to look for in a host when you first walk through the door. Furthermore, I began to examine the various different types of eating environment one may encounter while out to eat in Providence. In the next part of this series, I will take us a little further into the restaurant. I will discuss the interior décor of the restaurant, the place settings and if we have time, the service.

 

                At this stage in the game, I have entered the restaurant, been greeted by the host and finally been brought to my table.  The first thing I do at this point is sit back and take in my surroundings. What does the table look like? What does the restaurant interior look like? Is it all everything I hoped it would be? There are very few traits in interior décor that are universally acceptable at any Providence Restaurant. However one of these is appropriate lighting. For some managers, lighting a restaurant is a fine art. It requires careful tweaking of the dimmers throughout the evening to ensure that the brightness is not too much or too little in comparison with the naturally waning sunlight. The trick here for restaurants is to identify their ambiance. A quaint, romantic place will have very different lighting from a twenty-four hour diner. So, while I cannot say there is any one universal standard to follow, if you ask your self “Does the lighting feel right?” as you sit back at your table and look around, the answer will be immediately obvious one way or the other.

 

The same thing goes for table settings. Do not expect black, cloth napkins at the diner. If you are eating at a higher end restaurant, you can generally expect to see more stuff on the table as well. For instance, you may see a wine glass and a water glass, as well as silverware for appetizers and the main course. This is common practice at higher end restaurants and can almost be expected.