We feed Sophie in the kitchen, but often she doesn't finish her dinner. If we go to another room, she normally will not go back to eat. But, she will beg for us to give her something, and when we bring the food bowl in the den, she will eat in front of us!
I remember that we had a cat that would always wait for us to go downstairs in the morning before she would go down to eat in the kitchen, even though she had food in her bowl. Funny!