We came with another couple and were seated in the bar at a table near a TV, for a higher end restaurant sitting people in the bar area takes away from the ambiance and intimate setting that fine dinning experience can offer.  No one wants to be \"the one\" in a group to say the seating was not appropriate but as a fine dinning establishment you should know better, its at the entrance and the focus is on the hostess table and as you got to watch the comings and goings (and hear-asking where the restrooms are every three minutes).  We had a good time, because this what we do, and the food was great as usual, I never discussed with friends or husband that I thought our seating was inappropriate but reflecting back I know it poor taste on the restaurants side, you pay a lot of money for experience and you cheapened it, it was $600 for four people.