Some times you get hungry and you eat. So long as you fill up then that’s it, you’re satisfied.

Eating at Bacchus is not quite the same thing.

      Yes you satisfy your hunger

      Yes you satisfy your comfort

and a whole load of other needs and desires.

It becomes an accessory, an expression of the patron's personal style, aspiration, and identity-a dining room of one's own, but away from home. 

Bacchus becomes an arena where class divisions are safely breached. Diverse human exchanges such as Business Deals, Seductions, Family quarrels take place.

Social pretensions, guile and dictates of fashion are in evidence where you can have pretension to be rich, urbane, and powerful, and where the roles of Gastronome, bon-vivant, good father, benevolent mother, and ardent lover can be played without the subterfuge being exposed.