If you consider a sports bar that is mainly known for its food a restaurant, then yes. Many times in those kinds of places it’s too noisy. If I’m going out to eat with folks, we generally want to talk with each other in a reasonably quiet place. They should leave the noisy to clubs and music venues. They usually serve enough that you won’t go hungry socializing with folks you don’t want to talk to anyway. A review might be nice, but then that’s always subjective. And night to night it would vary if they had many noisy kids in there or not. Or a group of drunk adults.

Have to agree with Slugger (first time!) on this, it is a very subjective thing. So is the rating on the food for that matter. I would stick to critiquing the food if I was the P-D.

I and my group of friends go out to various restarurants routinely, and this is often a complaint that we have. We don’t always see each other as much as we’d like to, so a noisy restaurant really ruins the experience for us since we’d like to be able to easily communicate with each other. Background noise has always been a problem for me, so I will not return to any restaurant where I can’t hear a person sitting next to me. A rating like this would really help me choose a restaurant. Also, how about a cigarette smoke rating? The “non-smoking” section in many restaurants is a joke.

Anything above the usual din of a home is too much.
Anytime I need to yell to be heard, it’s too noisy.
I won’t be back.

A nice loud restaurant is perfect when the in-laws are in town.

I’m with Slugger (et al) on this one. I go to restaurants to eat and converse with my companions. If I wanted noise, excitement, and no ability to communicate without screeching, I’d head for a different venue. But before a critic labels a place as loud or quiet, said critic should visit said restaurant on different days at different times of the day. The early Tuesday lunch crowd may be a whole different kettle of fish than the late evening Saturday drunken after-an-event patrons. So I’d pretty well ask the critic to stick to the general food and atmosphere comments and leave the end user to exercise his own judgment regarding decibel level.

Noise is “subjective”? I thought it is determined by decibel’s. (S) There are 12 in our group, Four smoke. So the 1st requirement of any restaurant is that they allow smoking. None are allowed to have smoking around here. We solved the problem by taking turns of providing the food will be cooked. It is then cooked at my house My dining room has lots of glass and a great view of the lake that abuts my property on 3 sides.

Now to decibels, the loudest thing that one will hear is a dog barking off in the distance. We always chose a restaurant that had little noise before we switched to eating at my house. While nobody in our group has any money problems, we now eat better tasting food than you can find in 5 star restaurant, it cost’s less than what WE TIPPED AT A RESTARAUNT.

Kurt you picked a good topic. I’ll digress in my next post.

Back in March I had a date this older chick and we went to Jive and Wail. It was too loud and it was hard to speak and be heard, although that is what you would expect. We went down to Boogaloo, but it was still too loud. The date went very bad, so I learned that when you go out on those first few dates it is best to avoid the noisy spots.

Regardless, I’m glad it didn’t go any further, because she was apparently a psycho and a total gold digger.

Whether or not “good” food is served, I avoid loud restaurants whenever I can. So I typically do not frequent restaurants in the Landing, several in the CWE, most along Washington downtown, and a few “on the hill”, and one or two in Clayton.

sounds like a huge waste of time