Does Where You Eat Matter? Alinea's 25-Course Meal...

Place setting: does where you eat matter?

Research suggests that it is better for you to eat at a table, and that the colour red suppresses your appetite... guardian.co.uk

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EATING OUT from The WSJ.com
A four-hour dinner of surprises at Alinea, the country's most radical restaurant. The 25-course $225 meal at Chicago's Alinea restaurant includes trout roe with parsnip, licorice and ginger, and sweet potato with bourbon, brown sugar and smoldering cinnamon. ...
... Constant novelty is the hallmark of Grant Achatz's latest "tour" menu, with never a dull moment. After the 17th or 18th dazzling little course at the nation's most radical restaurant, the mind wants to cry uncle, but the physical appetite for Alinea's improbable transmogrifications of food presses you on to the end of chef Grant Achatz's latest "tour" menu. ...
Full Story: Savoring a 25-Course Meal; By RAYMOND SOKOLOV