Originally posted by dugrant153 with the 2 cups drawing you into the main subject...
That's the puzzle for me - I'm not sure what the main subject is. If it's the dinner setting, then I agree with juu, that it needs to have greater emphasis, perhaps blurring out the background traffic reflections somewhat. If, however, the main subject is the reflections of the cars, that would be more difficult, given that the table setting is in the mid-foreground. I understand what you're saying about the layers thing and you almost pull it off, but the planes of the composition aren't sufficiently well defined for that, I feel.
The dinner setting is a nice idea - who's coming? Is it an illicit love affair? A wedding anniversary? A first date? Will they both show up? There seems to be a figure approaching from the left. It would have been great to have waited a bit until s/he got a bit closer, which could have given the suggestion that this is the first person to arrive, and all those other scenarios would follow.
Easy to say from where I'm sitting, of course and much harder when you're actually there with only a few seconds to make decisions. Nevertheless, it's a very pleasing experiment.