"We sat at a table near the exterior wall and near the glass door to a party room. The door near us was left open even though all traffic in/out of the room went through a door on another wall. The people in the room were not continually loud, but when they laughed, we couldn't hear one another. Why wasn't the door near us closed? (We couldn't locate our waiter, so we didn't ask him to close the door near us There were bread plates on our table, but there weren't butter knives for each plate. We spread the butter with serrated knives. I expected better knowledge of tableware. The pepper shaker wouldn't release pepper. I find this to be common. Apparently, those who fill pepper shakers are not schooled to fill pepper shakers no more than full. If they are less than full, then the pepper doesn't fluff to a volume that prevents the pepper from being released. Our waiter finally sent someone to fill our water glasses. Apparently, he had something more urgent than observing that we'd needed our glasses refilled."
