1FTB is a review of restaurants for people who, like me, dine often at the bar.  It is an altogether different experience from eating at a table with friends & family or just having a drink shoulder to shoulder.  The theater of a restaurant is different. The quality of interactions with staff & even fellow patrons is different.  In short, what you see, hear, say, touch, and sometimes taste is quite different when you are seated at the bar.  And so this is a small guide for my fellow bar grazers about those differences.

1FTB is somewhat idiosyncratic. Sushi bars are not reviewed, though wine bars are.  And though people eat breakfast & lunch at bars (I hear), 1FTB’s focus is dinner.  Restaurants reviewed are conveniently located near where I live, work and travel – and that is mostly Lower Manhattan and occasionally SF.