Neither bar nor airport lounge nor restaurant. This place looks like a snack bar in a bus station. It is poorly laid out, and service to the traveler is bush league at best. It is located in an inconvenient part of the airport at the top of steep stairs. The room in which it is housed seems to be part bar, part sit-down restaurant, and part standard departure lounge. These areas are poorly defined. In the "bar" area, there is no outside food allowed. This is certainly understandable for a restaurant, but there is no sign posted to let you know which part of this establishment you are in. Likewise, alcohol is not permitted in the "departure lounge" area, but no signage exists to define this area. Last week, I committed the cardinal sin of carrying a glass of beer over to sit in a comfortable chair whilst checking my email and having a sandwich I had with me. Immediately a member of the bar staff came to me and loudly and publicly shamed me for sitting outside the bar, and for bringing outside food into a restaurant. They were rude and treated me as if I were stupid for not knowing somehow that I had exited the "beer legal" part of the lounge. I would capitulate to ignorance in the matter, but the same thing happened two minutes later to another gentleman who took a mixed drink over to the same area where I was, to sit comfortably with his friends who chose not to drink, and received the same rude and thoughtless treatment. It is no fault of mine, nor of this other man, that this establishment cannot be bothered to sign the areas of their bar correctly. A simple sign reading "No Alcohol Beyond This Point" on one side, and "No Outside Food Beyond This Point" would eliminate all the confusion, and relieve the staff from having to berate people for something that is not their fault. To top it off, this place is outside security, and my airline requires you to be at the gate an hour before flight time, so unless you have enough time to sit there, order a meal, endure their tortoise-like service, and still report to security 60 minutes prior, it is pretty useless to enter this place. Nobody connects at Trenton, and if they did, they would not exit security and climb up to the top of the airport for this place. All things considered, I would actually advise showing up at TTN exactly one hour before your flight and going straight through security. For the first time in 40 years of air travel, I would rather have had a sandwich and a drink on the airplane than spend another second in this place. Needless to say, they lost at least two customers that day, and I will go hungry and thirsty rather than endure their hospitality. read more