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I (Brian) will be coming along with my wife and our baby girl. I will be bringing my insane brownies and paper towels (4 rolls)

Unfortunately, you can't please everyone, no matter how hard your good intentions. As others have said, it is your restaurant, therefore you get to make the rules. Anyone who has taken a few minutes to talk with you or just observe how happy your wait staff is or how much you seem to enjoy when your customers are having a great meal will recognize your true intentions. Most people that have either dined there before or see how small your restaurant is despite the great reviews should see that your efforts are about pleasing people and giving as many people the opportunity to enjoy as possible, not to maximize profits. With that said, you do create a dilemna ... by having so much good food I tend to over eat. Once that takes place and my over stuffed stomach finds a way to still squeeze in that wonderful key lime pie, I then have the difficulty of trying to figure out how to get up so that others in waiting may come in and enjoy themselves. Seriously though ... your phone message already indicates how small the restaurant is and that you are trying to do the best you can. Your menu has some verbage about the small operation. At this point, just ask people to be patient and polite and if they can't or won't, they may be asked to leave. There really isn't anything else you can do (legally).

As if I need another reason to go to RTS .... this is like making crack more addictive ....

I did a search and couldn't find anything on Tio Pepe's. This is a Spanish Restaurant in Baltimore that was amazing the two times I have been there. The first time there, my wife had a special with scallops and a lemon wine butter sauce. The scallops were the best I have ever had ... melted in my mouth and the flavor was amazing. I had a dish called the 3 Amigos which was lamb beef and pork (either pork or chicken ... I forget) and it was really good. The second time there I was with a group of people and we ordered fish that was filleted table side. The presentation was wonderful and the flavor amazing. The sangria was also a definite hit ... in their pitchers with the fresh fruit. Has anyone else happened upon this restaurant? If so ... which dishes were great and which ones should be avoided?

My wife and I tried the Ashburn Location 3 weeks ago and were very disapointed. Dare I say that Carrabbas would have been much better for about the same price. The service was slow and rude/disinterested. The food was too creative ... such as linquini in clam sauce tasing more like sweet fried garlic than the true blending of wine, garlic and other seasoning. The pizza I ordered was too doughy (not crisp) and the flavor tasted bland. Nothing stood out. We won't be back.

I happened to come home to my wife watching this as it was winding down. I have no idea who that punk *** little kid was who was doing the bobby flay by jumping up on the counter and screaming, but I wanted to shoot him really badly. The only part of the program I found interesting was that towards the end they let the chef's come in for some miracle work on anything wrong with the celebrities' dishes before the time runs out. Wolfgang Puck put the skewers of chicken satay back on the burner after his young punk c-rate celeb had already taken them off the burner. The judges said that the sauce for the satay was great, if not a little too sweet, but the chicken was overcooked and dry ... The biggest problem with the show (other than the horrible has been celebs and the obvious touting of Wolfgang Puck) was that there was no weighting for degree of difficulty for the dishes chosen. The little punk made vegetarian pizza, creme' brulee and chicken satay ... versus people cooking with much more complicated foods. Plus there was no theme, so it wasn't even skill to skill. Horrible show ... I was very glad when my 15 minutes of torture ended so that I could grab the remote back.

Out of curiosity ... did you go on any of the kona coffee tours or try and find the best coffee or was this more of the best kona coffee you found from various breakfast establishments? Reason I ask is that we are still planning out our activities and I am not sure how much time we want to spend on various kona coffee farms ... especially if someone has already compared many of them. Thank you for the other recommendations. I am sure my wife will love to try the ice cream ... lol

The best meal of my life is still rated as the multi course meal I had at Guy Savoy. It was also by far and away the most expensive. This was several years ago. We also tried La Tour d'Argent (was good, but not tremendous and the waiter warned us that the pressed duck was very very gamey, so we ordered off their tasting/sampling menu instead). The third haute restaurant we visited was Le Grand Véfour. The restaurant was very beautiful, but the meal was not as impressive as the history of the restaurant's past diners and the decor all around. For cheap eats I recommend L'Sargent Recruit near the latin quarter. Not sure if it is still around, but for around 25 Euros you got all the salad and deli meats you could eat in a basket (including pickles and so forth), soup, a decent meal, plus all you could drink house wine (not tremendous), and desert (their chocolate mousse was pretty good). It is all low key and not 5-star quality, but definitely a great bang for the buck considering.

I will be on the Big Island from Apr 29 - May 7th. For the first 6 nights I will be on the Kona side and the last two on the Hilo Side. Aside from Merrimans, I found a lot of good reviews on Daniel Thiebaut and a mom and pop breakfast place called Ken's Pancake House on the Hilo Side (not gourmet dining, just reliable and 24hrs.) Can anyone offer up any other recommendations for a great meal as well as cheap eats? Thanks!