Le Dive — Restaurant in New York

I frequent this place a decent amount and do enjoy it! The ambiance is great, the servers and bartenders are friendly. But something that has always bothered me is the fact that if the hostesses or door girls find out you know, not are with, but even just know a different party there they won’t seat you, and it makes absolutely no sense to me. Last night 3 of us wanted to grab a table, we’re about to walk in and see 2 people we know at the bar through the window and wave. They are not with us, we are not with them, but these are people we know so naturally you say hello. The hostess saw us wave and told us they don’t split up parties so they wouldn’t be able to seat us. I explained we were not together or trying to sit with them, but she still kept repeating I can’t split parties I won’t be able to seat you. This has happened in the past before and it’s just the most off putting experience. We were not a a part of the “same party” as them we just happened to run into two other people we knew in the same establishment. You could sit us on opposite sides of the restaurant, as we were not here to join them, we were here to get our own drinks and food, but as soon as they see that you know someone they immediately deny you a table. This has happened multiple times in the past and I understand having a table limit, but this isn’t about a table limit as we weren’t sitting with them, and had no intention on trying to talk to them throughout dinner. Just a really weird thing and it makes no sense to me. Love everything besides this, but quite frankly this is off putting to a point where I don’t go as often anymore as I normally know one or two people there, when you live in a neighborhood and frequent places people become familiar, so to always be denied a table because you wave hi to someone and get grouped into their party is a very very...

I’ve been to Le Dive before and had an amazing time, great accommodating service! I went by myself a couple of days ago, and was super disappointed. I understand that seeing someone dine alone, you probably don’t want to bother them as much. Someone is just trying to have a calm time by themselves. But to receive virtually NO SERVICE? Unacceptable. As someone who also works in the restaurant industry- I was quite disappointed. I had to flag servers down to order my food, get a refill on my drink. And mind you, a few servers looked at me looking for someone and ignored me. The only way I was able to catch someone is them walking in and out the door (my table was right by the entrance ). No one once came up and checked in on me. I looked around the restaurant- inside and outside- I don’t believe anyone was getting good service really. And the servers truly seem like they don’t care to be there, don’t want to work, and overall seem unhappy. And I get it, everyone has their off days. Maybe it was an off day at the restaurant that day. However that did tarnish my experience. The wine was good, the food was pretty good, but everything would have been so much better if I was treated like a patron, a person even, rather than just someone who’s there to give money and a tip regardless of the...

DON’T go if you’re not Caucasian, not even joking

Walked in looking for a table(Friday 6pm-ish) I went up to the host and asked if they have seats for party of 3. The host(male) had an extremely bad attitude, looking down at me and BEFORE I could even finish my sentence, telling me “we’re closed” when they most obviously weren’t, along with a lot more snotty remarks. I even asked if they were taking waitlists — he said no, with zero apology or explanation, then immediately just turned around and walked off. His whole attitude and facial expression made it very clear he didn’t even want to talk to me.

We showed up knowing it would be busy and were fully ready to wait — but he didn’t even let us put our names down.

Unfortunately, every other party behind us either went in successfully or got to get put jn a waitlist? Did’t see a single asian at all inside or outside the restaurant, honestly, not even surprised at this point.

Maybe don’t go if you’re not Caucasian because you won’t have any success at getting seated or even being treated humanly.

To the host who was working that night: You ruined my night. Your attitude was pathetic. Learn how to treat people like human beings instead of picking and choosing based on race....