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Food snobbery
Oct. 5th, 2008 09:22 pmI'm a little annoyed with myself because I just caught myself being a food snob.
This evening, Heidi and I went to this fancy restaurant on the Upper East Side. They're so fancy and hip that they have a prestigious interior design firm re-do the place every three months. The menu looked really good, though, and thy had good reviews, so we went there as our once-a-week dining outing.
So what went wrong? First they couldn't find the wine we ordered, so we had to eat our appetizers without wine - and then they asked us to select a different wine. Wine service was slow - our glasses didn't get refilled in time (the bottle was not on or near our table, so we could not refill our own glasses). I ordered the special, only to be told later it wasn't available, and again had to select a fall-back. Then Heidi found a piece of plastic in her dessert. Finally, the bill showed the expensive wine that we didn't get and we had to send the check back to be corrected (it was a $40 difference).
Having said all that, the food was excellent (ignoring the plastic) and the service couldn't have been nicer. So when I caught myself saying "we'll never come back here" I ended up angry with myself. I'm still thinking about that - have I really become that spoiled, or was this justifiable anger at a bad experience?
This evening, Heidi and I went to this fancy restaurant on the Upper East Side. They're so fancy and hip that they have a prestigious interior design firm re-do the place every three months. The menu looked really good, though, and thy had good reviews, so we went there as our once-a-week dining outing.
So what went wrong? First they couldn't find the wine we ordered, so we had to eat our appetizers without wine - and then they asked us to select a different wine. Wine service was slow - our glasses didn't get refilled in time (the bottle was not on or near our table, so we could not refill our own glasses). I ordered the special, only to be told later it wasn't available, and again had to select a fall-back. Then Heidi found a piece of plastic in her dessert. Finally, the bill showed the expensive wine that we didn't get and we had to send the check back to be corrected (it was a $40 difference).
Having said all that, the food was excellent (ignoring the plastic) and the service couldn't have been nicer. So when I caught myself saying "we'll never come back here" I ended up angry with myself. I'm still thinking about that - have I really become that spoiled, or was this justifiable anger at a bad experience?
