I'm not going to bother with the food or service (all good), but more about the two big debate questions for "signature dining" - kids and dress. I'm going to try and not say what is or isn't appropriate, just what I noticed while there.
We ate at Artist's Point about 6:00 on October 11th. There were many kids in the restaurant, but only one under the age of four that I noticed. Most of the kids seemed to be in the elementary school range. All were well behaved. Lots of big parties - at least two tables that were ten plus people - looked like family reunions.
Lots of shorts and tennis shoes (probably 60% of the footwear) but no flip flops (not even the dressy kind - several women wore sandals, but not the flip flop type) and only one non-collared shirt on a man that I noticed. No ball caps in sight. There were lots of "park clothes" but the dressy end of park clothes. Many men (30% or better) wore long pants and several women had on skirts or dresses.
(We took our nine and ten year old - My husband and I both wore khaki's and tennis shoes and a collared shirt - as did my daughter. My son wore shorts.)
Shulas on October 14th - we hit the Gartner conference and Shulas was filled with business people dressed up on expense accounts. NO children were noticeable in the entire restaurant (I did see a family with what looked like about a six year old daughter waiting for their table as we left). I didn't see anyone in tennis shoes or anything even resembling park clothes. This was definitely on the "business" side of "business casual" - although I suspect the conference was influencing the atmosphere more than normal.
(This was just my husband and I - both of us brought dress up clothes just for this - he had on linen slacks and a silk long sleeved shirt with collar, I wore a skirt, sandals, and silky top.)
We ate at Artist's Point about 6:00 on October 11th. There were many kids in the restaurant, but only one under the age of four that I noticed. Most of the kids seemed to be in the elementary school range. All were well behaved. Lots of big parties - at least two tables that were ten plus people - looked like family reunions.
Lots of shorts and tennis shoes (probably 60% of the footwear) but no flip flops (not even the dressy kind - several women wore sandals, but not the flip flop type) and only one non-collared shirt on a man that I noticed. No ball caps in sight. There were lots of "park clothes" but the dressy end of park clothes. Many men (30% or better) wore long pants and several women had on skirts or dresses.
(We took our nine and ten year old - My husband and I both wore khaki's and tennis shoes and a collared shirt - as did my daughter. My son wore shorts.)
Shulas on October 14th - we hit the Gartner conference and Shulas was filled with business people dressed up on expense accounts. NO children were noticeable in the entire restaurant (I did see a family with what looked like about a six year old daughter waiting for their table as we left). I didn't see anyone in tennis shoes or anything even resembling park clothes. This was definitely on the "business" side of "business casual" - although I suspect the conference was influencing the atmosphere more than normal.
(This was just my husband and I - both of us brought dress up clothes just for this - he had on linen slacks and a silk long sleeved shirt with collar, I wore a skirt, sandals, and silky top.)
