I'm not a huge fan of Irvine's but I didn't tell our family members that, since they recommended it and were paying for the meal!!!! Instead, took a chance. The layout of the restaurant is very nice but, as with other restaurants, it was pretty noisy and hard to carry on a conversation. We yelled along with the others and did pretty ok!!!! The food was good and there were many choices. I had to laugh, however, because Irvine often slimmed down the menus of the restaurants that he reviewed and "re-built"! A little hypocrisy going on there?