understand all the restaurateur arguments against BYOB, and Mario obviously knows how to run a restaurant as well as anyone. Not trying to tell anyone how to run their business. But under these circumstances, it’s just...

who were equally rude and absent a lot of the time. I don’t find the food at O & I to be remarkable enough to warrant spotty service and relatively high prices.

to traverse the stairs and retrieve our own coats, since the staff had no recollection of which coats were ours (note to restaurateurs: the “memory system” is perhaps not the most excellent system for a coat check) At long last...

. Sadly, it isn’t scams. Scams are perpetrated by those clever enough to devise and carry out a plan. While childish in nature, scams take a certain maturation to plan and to execute. The crisis facing restaurateurs is the...

I live in the neighborhood (obviously — see moniker), to me the restaurant’s menu and esp the prices are really not motivating us to try it. I wish restaurateurs would realize this — many people living in the...

I’ll take this opportunity to give you all an inside look into my favorite Sushi restaurant in Northern Ca. Aki-san comes from a family of restaurateurs in Japan. I remember him telling me that when he was a young adult, he...

a server! I thought this type of tactics were only used in busy Chinese restaurants?! The sommelier was rude and in a rush, mumbling thru the wine description/introduction. Since none of us heard what he was saying, we asked him...

brusque with us. We thought maybe it was us?! We were dressed rather casually. He was almost a parody of the rude (Italian) waiter genre – started telling us specials by speaking off-stage (oh, he’s talking to us...),...

higher than the regular menu prices, and woe unto you who opt for the specials without inquiring about prices, for you will find a rude surprise when you get the bill. But these last two are but niggling complaints. My main beef...

To update my last posting: We’ve been regular patrons for 15 years and have not been served a bad or mediocre meal. The food is exceptionally good. Eclectic, interesting tasty and priced properly. Service has always been...

Simon, I am in BKK for most of this month and whilst I am relishing eating my way through the superb Thai options (I went to Coffee Bean on Soi Ruam Rudee for lunch today and was impressed), I was going to ask you whether you had...

was rude. We stood around another five minutes, noticing through the windows that all the seats were filled and that no one looked like they were about to leave. We soon discovered that he had just seated the party whose...

a talent for ordering the best dish on the menu. hehehehehe... let me say something here for all the restaurateurs and chefs of the world. if you say belly? it should be a chunk. not a slice of bacon. otherwise, just say bacon....

first off, mr. felafel is egyptian food, totally different style then olympic pita, which is israeli. it’s comparing apples and oranges. the staff at olympic may be a bit rude at times but i’ve always enjoyed...

. I wouldn’t call him rude, just busy... and he was probably hoping not to have too many distractions from any individual table. So we didn’t have a huge discussion with him, but also didn’t want to. I ordered...