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To me it is always a crazy feeling to visit some old school restaurant or bar with heavy drapes/carpets/textiles covering the flat surfaces. They have a feeling
by throw__away7391 2y ago
To me it is always a crazy feeling to visit some old school restaurant or bar with heavy drapes/carpets/textiles covering the flat surfaces. They have a feeling of almost being haunted/enchanted, but the exact reason isn't necessarily obvious. The sound of people talking around you takes on a peculiar quality and feels simultaneously warm and more distant than it actually is.
- hinkley 2y agoI miss the big overstuffed booths. I don't like the person behind me wiggling, but I didn't realize how much sound they ate until they were gone. Where are you finding these old school restaurants? We need to make lists.
- stevage 2y agoI once paid someone on airtasker to research me ten cafes in Melbourne that have carpet. They only found one, and I already knew it. It has since closed.
- hinkley 2y agoHow would you objectively measure the sound level in a restaurant? If we could sort that out we could start making lists.
- throw__away7391 2y agoI'm pretty sure you could measure this with a mobile phone app, if such a thing doesn't already exist. I've already many times used such an app to measure acoustics in a room as part of the setup process for multiple brands of home speaker system, they emitted a range of frequencies and presumably measured the result using the microphone.
- multjoy 2y agoWetherspoons (pub chain in the UK, divisive in that it is a hive of villany while simultaneously being one of the few places you can get a well kept real ale) have individual carpets in each of their venues. This has, as you can imagine, become a hobby. https://www.wetherspoonscarpets.co.uk https://www.wetherspoonscarpets.co.uk
- stevage 2y agoAmazing. I can't really wrap my head around the idea of a chain pub.