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Many of the best restaurants are no longer formal fancy places. Those days are dead in some ways.

There are many places that have high end food but aren't overly formal.

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To be honest, I don't want my napkin folded for me by the waiter when I get up to use the restroom, I don't want to be treated as if I am royalty,

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This may be a big part of why you are uncomfortable in such places, When I was young, I felt awkward when other people were "serving" me, whether it be a waiter, shoeshine guy, or housekeeper. I felt like, dude, I'm just a peon like you, so you don't have to kiss my arse and call me sir.

I got over it eventually, with one exception: bathroom attendant. I feel sorry for the poor bastards and embarrassed to have them handing me a towel.

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You know what, I do like bread and crackers when they are available, but a lot of the places they have bread and crackers are actually quite cheap, and I would never go to a fancy restaurant just because they have bread and crackers.

For me, when I've went to Galletoires before, while the food has been very good, the atmosphere is very aloof, to me, and makes me uncomfortable. It, again, to me, seems like too much of a stuffy institution for my taste. I'm not saying that the people who go there are stuffy, but rather, the vibe that the restaurant atmosphere gives off in the way management has set it up gives it a very elitist aura, and this makes me uncomfortable

To be honest, I don't want my napkin folded for me by the waiter when I get up to use the restroom, I don't want to be treated as if I am royalty, I just want good food and a laid back atmosphere. For me, with Copa America soccer on television, it would be great if, during dinner, I could kick back and watch some soccer while eating pretty good, cheap food. That is a much more enjoyable experience for me than sweating through my button-down while I eat food that I know will cost hundreds of dollars.

Not mention that if men are just going to put the sport coat on back of the chairs before sitting down, then what's point of making them put it on for the ten seconds they walk to their table? It just seems stupid to me.

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The atmosphere is not all of as you have said several times. The patron (you) apparently are "aloof".

If you are uncomfortable, don't want your napkin folded, want to watch soccer and apparently have an aversion to a sport coat than pick a place and be done with it. I wear a blazer or sport coat because I enjoy it. Not to endure it and I don't "sweat" through it. I've only taken my coat off at dinner 3 times and all three were the Chefs table at Commanders which is in the kitchen and they encourage you because of the heat. But they have a coat rack so I didn't hang it on the back of my chair like a Members Only jacket.

And where does the food for you cost "hundreds of dollars?'

Frankly with your complaints I think you are doing it wrong.

did you just learn how to use the word "aloof?"

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For me, when I've went to Galletoires before, while the food has been very good, the atmosphere is very aloof, to me, and makes me uncomfortable. It, again, to me, seems like too much of a stuffy institution for my taste.

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Hmmmm, Galatoire's seems to me anything but a "stuffy" restaurant, especially on a Friday afternoon. Loud and boisterous maybe, but not stuffy.