A bad experience

I had dinner at Mi Piace on Saturday night. Mi Piace is a busy italian
place in Pasadena old town, Los Angeles.

The adventure starts off with them not accepting reservations for
parties of less than 4. That leaves me and my dinner date pretty much
out of luck. We decide to turn up at 8pm and see what happens.

We're told that it'll be a 30 minute wait. So we wait. Hmm....
there's nowhere to sit. Everyone's just lounging around, waiting for
a table. It's crowded, and uncomfortable. My shoes weren't made for
standing around.

Finally, after 45 minutes of sole killing waiting, we finally get a
table. Our server whisks us to a small little table set in the corner
of the restaurant.

We sit. We look around.

There's a sea of people lounging around waiting for their table.
They're crammed all around my table. It really doesn't help any that
my table is more than a little low, so their butt is at table-level.
It doesn't sound like much until you experience trying to eat with
someone's butt in your face.

To be fair, the food was very nice. However, I feel that the overall
experience was really marred by bad seating and a long waiting period
which was made more uncomfortable by not having a proper waiting area.