Beak and Barrel Seating Experiences

[monorailmom]

I am just curious how parties of 2 (or 3) have been seated. Do you get a table to yourselves, or are you seated with other parties? Any luck requesting to be seated by yourselves?

 

[kylenne]

I was there opening night standing at the bar, and saw a few parties of 2-3 at the bar but most were sharing tables elsewhere.

I would not go in expecting to get your own table. The space is quite simply not big enough to accommodate that given the outsized demand for reservations. If you’re averse to sharing tables with other parties this is just not the place for you, to put it bluntly.

 

[pooch]

Not quite sure how this all works. There are different areas and things happen in each area? If you are seated in one how do you experience others?

 

[kylenne]

Not quite sure how this all works. There are different areas and things happen in each area? If you are seated in one how do you experience others?

Every section has thematic elements that are unique to that section. You experience those things by getting up and walking around, same as anywhere else that’s heavily themed. If you’re in the ballroom at BOG you’re not going to see the Beast’s portrait change during the thunderclaps or the petals fall from the rose unless you get up and walk to the West Wing. I couldn’t see the ships in a bottle fighting from the bar but I had a perfect view of the bird. Unless you spend your entire 45 min eating and drinking you have plenty of time to look around afterwards, the place is not that big.

 

[monorailmom]

Thanks Kylenne, we are still debating but just wanted to know what we are getting ourselves into! We've done Trader Sam's a couple times, and have been to Oga's so we have an idea. It seems bigger than both of those in pictures and videos, but of course things are always different in person.

 

[kylenne]

Thanks Kylenne, we are still debating but just wanted to know what we are getting ourselves into! We've done Trader Sam's a couple times, and have been to Oga's so we have an idea. It seems bigger than both of those in pictures and videos, but of course things are always different in person.

Vids are a bit deceiving with B&B, they make it look way bigger than it actually is, I think because of how the rooms are laid out. The main room (the mess) is the biggest one and the others aren’t as big, but none of them are huge. Capacity wise I think it’s more than Trader Sam’s and maybe slightly more than Oga’s but the tables look bigger to me. I didn’t really notice any 2 tops in the mess, just long tables. The booths I saw were like 4 ppl minimum.

 

[VGCgroupie]

We were 3 and seated alone at our own table which was nice, granted our reservation was at 8:50pm not sure if that had anything to do with it. It was behind a middle section with a partition so to see anything happening at the bar you had to get up and walk over there.