Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A couple’s toast, the clicking of the utensils, fire crackles around a pan of sizzling oil: These are some of the sounds cascading ...

Restaurant quiet zones disappear as loud diners dominate dining rooms and turn once-calm spaces into hubs of noise and disruption. Dining rooms once designed for intimate conversation now echo with ...

WILSHIRE BLVD — A year since its opening, the complaints are still coming in from neighbors about SOUTH, bemoaning the noise and other general quality of life issues which they believe came with the ...

Restaurants and cafes exist mainly to rejuvenate. We go out to consume something tasty we didn’t have to make while engaging in pleasurable, sometimes illuminating conversation. Some restaurants do ...

Restaurant noise is a known nuisance. Zagat and Consumer Reports surveys have both named loud environments as the number one irritant for patrons. Many people choose their lunch or dinner destinations ...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- Restaurant owners in Midtown tell Eyewitness News they're being targeted by citizens enforcing New York City's noise code. "For 27 years that we've been here, we've never ...

Have you ever left a restaurant with ringing ears and barely any memory of what your dinner companion actually said? You're not alone. The modern dining experience has transformed into something that ...

“Loud is not better.” It all started with a simple question to our Taste Q&A column about including decibel levels in our restaurant reviews. We published a hallelujah chorus of your responses about ...