Comments on: Sighing at Masa 14

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:31:52 +0000

I can only handle shared plates when it’s finger food. Even still, I tend to get shockingly territorial.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:09:54 +0000

I have this theory that they actually make more money with a tapas menu because people feel like they have to order so many to get full. And they are right! We just ate at Jaleo and it was right up there as tapas restaurants go.

By: brad

brad — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:08:28 +0000

Bench seating is for picnics.

And tapas are okay, I guess. I just usually want more. It would have to be the kind of thing where we did tapas for happy hour but got a bigger, better menu for dinner.

By: Big Money Tony

Big Money Tony — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:52 +0000

I don’t like communal seating, however it seems very common in Dim Sum restaurants in cities that have packed restaurants. NYC, SF, and Hong Kong. If it’s busy at Masa 14, it would justify it.

By: freckledk

freckledk — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:54:30 +0000

Was supposed to go here but it was called off. So happy, now that I’ve read your review. Not my sort of scene.

By: bh

bh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:23:23 +0000

I swear to GOD the bartenders in this city get more entitled and worse at their jobs with each passing day. It’s not hard: Keep a cold beer in front of me and cash me out in a relatively swift fashion, and I’ll tip your balls/tits off. It doesn’t even bother me that I’m being ignored while you hit on whatever POA is leaning on the bar.

And I’m over the small plates thing too. I’m ready for regular entrees with the protein/veggie/starch tripod to make its return.

By: Marie

Marie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:03:18 +0000

If I’m going to be squished next to hoards of people while I’m trying to have a conversation with the person I’m there with, I’d probably hate it too. Even if the food is good. After all we are paying for the food AND the ambiance.

By: alexa - cleveland's a plum

alexa - cleveland's a plum — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:00:40 +0000

tequilia and blackberry puree?? whoa.

By: Peregrine John

Peregrine John — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:43:58 +0000

Communal seating blows. I do not visit such a place twice.

Love tapas, and always have. That there is anything like a trend regarding it (which doesn’t seem to be happening on this coast, by the way) sort of cracks me up. Once the public ADHD moves on, we’ll be left with the excellent Spanish places we had to begin with.

Now excuse me, please, while I try to find a way to scrub from my mental eyes the idea of something putting hair on your chest.

By: jordanbaker

jordanbaker — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:34:04 +0000

The one benefit I’ve heard of to the communal seating at Masa is that a friend of mine was recently on a TRES awkward date there (note: no one, regardless of sex or sexuality should discuss felching on the first date), and the couple sitting next to them totally saved his ass by interrupting and diverting the conversation. And now they’re friends. Yay!