Monday, November 2, 2009
Happy Hour / Restaurants Les Fashionables Do Lunch
Posted by Nicki Wood on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:03 AM
A well-heeled person whom we'll call Tolstoy from a certain country we'll call Bolshevia had lunch at a restaurant in New York on Friday. With three people ordering the same $195 truffle tagiolini entree, it was going to be a not-inexpensive lunch.
The gratuity was $7,000, and the party was said to have kicked in an additional $5,000.
It's great advertising for the restaurant. On the other hand, now everyone knows how marked-up the wines are.
And really, if you spent $50,000, wouldn't you want the tab to list the vintages of the wines?
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He's banned from spending money on new players for Chelsea FC so he's making up for it on lunches.
Let's go Arsenal!
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Ooh, thanks. I'll print this out in case the upper-ups give me grief over last week's dinner for 32 at Brasserie Ruhlmann. It was a fraction (a small one) of this bill.
Incidentally, the truffled mushroom risotto I had there was spectacular. And not $195.
