When ordering food, a server might ask if you want it together or separate. If it's together, all dishes for the table will wait until the entire order is ready before being sent to the dining room.

Everything else — clams and walrus, whale and washed-ashore seafood — has been cut and laid out on the big tray. Members of the Apassingok family reach for food from a shared platter April 25 ...

Thus, Pigeon and Whale. I’ll take my own liberties with the name, though, and suggest it marks a place where you can set up at the bar to snack like a pigeon, or take it to the table for a whale ...