thought the food was underpriced for the quality and that they were treated very well by warm and professional servers. An amusée and complimentary glass of Roeder Anderson Valley sparkling wine for each diner was a...

should be there to answer your questions, if no shelf-talkers are posted. Same as at a retail shop. It seems to be a serious oversight if you couldn’t get your questions answered. At wine bars, bartenders/servers will...

would get from a single chicken wing. Alongside the “Guts” was a small pile of some sort of spice powder (again, this is conjecture as I wasn’t really able to engage the server here). As I recall, they were not...

Sauvignon had a faulty cork that broke in two places on extraction. Our server decanted it to filter out the cork bits. I’ve tasted better bottles of this wine, including a far more intense and concentrated one from the same...

markups were just criminal. And Charlie was there that night, and quite present. The man who was buying dinner offered him a glass of wine and he drank it in the kitchen and had the server thank us. Now Seth – about Aruns. I...

the kick of the chili on a Tommy Burger to be considered tasty. Some things are complex in their simplicity. Just my opinion. Request Paul Sherman to be your server. He is a true professional. I have followed him since the Le...

and notice that the usual dishes aren’t appearing, I’ll politely ask for them; usually when the servers see that we are scarfing down their unusual delicacies, it makes them very happy. How would you feel if you...

to play up to their restaurant’s theme (like “nibbly dingo bites” or “guns of provolone”) where the servers load their suspenders with zany pins and buttons. If you see these wailing walls of pop...

is their determination to turn your table over. I also think they should warn those who are seated in booths that if they risk the tasting menu that most of the meal will be spent in watching the table attendants (servers,...

with servers running back and forth to the cellar and profuse apologies. The 98 vintage is generally considered superior to 97 in Condrieu, so I think you did better with the new vintage of Cuilleron. Also, fresher is better is a...

Bad service was one reason I didn’t like Ajanta. The server didn’t warn us that two of the dishes we ordered were despite their dissimilar names almost identical. Vik’s doesn’t have a tandoor oven,...

., the young woman hostess “sized us up” as a couple of non-francophone rubes and when our server came over to us, graciously serving our dishes with appropriate comments in French, she leaned over the bar and said to...

of the front room and cared enough about the appearance of one of our dishes to call the server back because he had not finished decorating it appropriately. Check out the rules on the back of the menu – I thought it was...

Typical banquet is arranged in 10-person or 12-person tables with one bird per table. So you could probably still have as much as you want. This was the one leftover dish that I’d asked the server to box up after our May...

, they do well. Service is pretty casual but servers seem to be well-informed about the food and the wine. They have a nice little wine list plus decent wines by the glass – a rarity! The only problem is getting a table...