 you know, that special occasion splurge. Is this place going to be really worth taking, you know, my friend out for something very special to thank her for doing something for me? I'm going to check it out first. Of course, restaurants are always a roll of the dice, right? They're moving targets. You never know. But you can get a really, really good sense of if you like the place just by sitting at the bar and having an appetizer or two.