Best restaurant porch: Klondike Kate's

If it's a bright and sunny May day, there's nothing better than satisfying your hunger while basking in the summer sun with friends. With a front porch that spans the length of the restaurant, Klondike Kate's offers the perfect venue to do that.

Manager Lizette Torres says requests from students and locals to sit outside usually increase with the temperature. The problem is that Kate's only has 10 tables outside and the number of customers asking to be seated outside is far greater.

As a result, Kate's doesn't take reservation for porch dining, instead handing out those valuable tables on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Torres says the restaurant is considering ways to better accommodate everyone, but for now employees are doing the best they can with what they have.

"We're hoping to maybe extend the porch someday," Torres says. "Maybe opening up the back."

At night, the relaxed dining scene of Kate's Main Street porch transforms to a breezy getaway for bar patrons. On any given Friday or Saturday night, the porch is packed with students enjoying a drink outside, getting some fresh air or taking a quick smoke break before returning back inside.

Torres says sometimes the crowd becomes too much and the staff at Kate's has to close off the porch and take down the tables and chairs.

"We do have some situations where it may get a little out of hand if we do have a line because it's right there on the other side of the railing," she says. "So, sometimes we have to break down some of the porch. But it really depends on how busy it is."

The porch's location alongside Main Street causes some problems when the bar gets near or over capacity. The line to get into the bar runs right by the porch and a few impatient attendees jump the line by hopping the rail.

"There's the brave ones who think they can jump over the fence and come in really quick and cut the line," Torres says. "But we have security on both ends of the porch and they constantly go back and forth and monitor the crowd."