"Sit at any two-top by the French shutters, and you’ll be part of your neighbors’ conversations. On your right side, a couple celebrates a wedding anniversary. You’ll desperately try not to make eye contact with the husband after his wife, who accidentally brushed her cold elbow against yours, starts to tell him about how an ayahuasca epiphany during the girl's trip to Burning Man made her realize she’d like to open up the relationship. Enjoy your incredible corn salad and mushroom risotto while you pivot to the conversation on your left from another couple, whose daughter’s $20,000 horse has fled the barn in Connecticut. Oh, look, dessert is here. It’s a vanilla bean cheesecake with berry compote, but you might as well ask for the check now so you can get out of the way and let these two couples know each other." - julia malave, ryan pfeffer, virginia otazo, mariana trabanino
