Welcome To 'Eat At The Counter'!

We're Ted and Cam, a father and son from Cleveland, Ohio. We like eating at the counter in restaurants. There's something fun, relaxing, and social about sharing some food, chatting with the wait staff and other patrons, and watching the operation of the restaurant - you usually don't have the same experience sitting at a regular table. The counter is cool!

We recently got into the habit of Saturday morning breakfast at the counter of various restaurants here in town. Each time, we started talking about what we liked and didn't like about that counter. Thus, the idea for this blog was born!

We plan to regularly post about our experiences dining at various counters, make recommendations about the best ones to visit and rate each new one we try. We're thinking of a rating system based on scores of 1 (poor) to 5 (outstanding) frying pans -- like this:

Maybe we'll get more detailed with our ratings as we go. We'll see how it works and what feedback we get.

So this is our first post, just to introduce ourselves and our idea. Follow along as we write about our counter visits. And feel free to send your recommendations on counters we should try - we're interested in going places we haven't been before.  Let us know where you like to go.  Happy eating!