Frontager's Social — Restaurant in Washington

We went to have dinner and we were asked to go sit in the bar, even though there was plenty of seating. So we went outside and walked down to the bar, went inside and they said have you checked in with the host? We didn’t quite understand what she was talking about, but we told her we had been to the other part of the restaurant and he had sent us over there. Neither of them seemed very interested in us being there so...