Posts Tagged ‘Michael Bauer Blog’

Sending back food you don’t like

Eric Luse/The Chronicle
At Zuni Cafe, the kitchen will replace a dish when diners aren’t satisfied.
When dining at a good place, if you order something and you get what was described on the menu, but take a taste and don’t enjoy it (would not eat it) is it reasonable to ask the waiter to take it [...]

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Differences in bicoastal dining

Rubicon was restaurateur Drew Nieporent’s only West Coast business.I’m fascinated by the subtle and not so subtle differences between the East and West coasts, and I’ve quoted Drew Nieporent several times in the blog about his observations as a bicoastal restaurateur.I caught up with him in New York last week and found that some things [...]

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Don’t show up for dinner? That will be $100

As a restaurant critic I thought you should know the outlandish charge that Coi charges if you cancel your reservation. $100 per person! In this economy, I would think that they would welcome any and all to their site, especially since they charge $125 per person in the dining room. I did cancel as a [...]

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