Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I confront parents who bring a wailing newborn to an upscale restaurant?

I, too, am of the opinion that people who bring babies to fancy restaurants should be run out of town on a rail. If there’s a sommelier, a pianist or a temperature-controlled cheese cave, it’s best to leave Junior at home. However, Toca is a hotel restaurant and must accommodate all manner of guests—they even have kid-appropriate plastic sippy cups on hand. While you would have been overstepping to say something to the parents, you certainly could have asked the staff to usher Mom or Dad and the little bundle of brimstone to a more private space nearby, so that you and your fellow diners could eat in peace.

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