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Raymond's - I checked out Raymond's in Montclair recently and the whole experience was marginal.  The food was very good and reasonably priced.  Actually, that was the only good thing about my recent lunch there.  It doesn't make much sense to talk about the food in any great detail except to say that almost anyone would find something they like on the menu.  The problem with Raymond's is not the food but the restaurant itself... loud and overcrowded. 

I've dined at plenty of crowded restaurants and enjoyed many of them immensely but it's way too much to ask a paying customer to have to get up after being seated to let other patrons and wait staff access a table wedged into an otherwise inaccessible corner.  Yes, I was seated at arguably the worst table in the place, except maybe that other table wedged into a corner.  My point here is that where you sit at Raymond's will, in all likelihood, determine your dining experience.  There looked to be some comfortable seats in this establishment, but if you aren't lucky enough to be seated in a booth or a table with some unobstructed room, the high quality of the food really won't matter.