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> Wow someone really ought to let the rest of the world outside of car-oriented America know. I live in the usa. The places I've been to that have outdoor tabl
by tbrownaw 4y ago
> Wow someone really ought to let the rest of the world outside of car-oriented America know.
I live in the usa. The places I've been to that have outdoor tables and aren't in pedestrian areas tend to have a giant parking lot shielding them from any high-traffic roads. The place that was an exception to that was on the edge of a university campus with relatively slow traffic.
- Macha 4y agoRight, but in a lot of non-US cities, "pedestrian areas" covers a much greater proportion of restaurants. Secondly, even for restaurants _on_ roads for cars, they often have space "out back" where the buildings on street itself provides the noise dampening for the dining area. Since the buildings are terraced/joined, it's effectively a wall of buildings between the dining areas out back and the road itself.