Dining Distractions
Children in restaurants: no bad thing, train their palates young, etc etc.
Lone diners: no bad thing, takes a bit of guts but lack of company should never deter the dedicated foodie.
BUT!
Children in restaurants ignored by their parents, left to run rogue, sing, yell, stamp their feet, generally caterwaul: DUD.
Lone diners who attempt to lure said children with fragments of dosai as if they were a squirrel in the park and then make CREEPY CLUCKING NOISES at them: DOUBLE DUD.
It was a strange meal.