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    Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations

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    Image of Sheila Sheila
    09/13/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    also: "or past 10pm." Nice.
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    09/13/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    well I got into Monkey Bar the other night. It was easy!
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    09/13/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    It's not that exclusive, I got a reservation (No, it wasn't for the next day or the next week.) and I'm nobody.

    It was nice enough, but the food was so rich I was up all night. Next year, I pick my birthday dinner restaurant.
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    Image of MsMuffinMcGuffin MsMuffinMcGuffin
    09/13/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    Absolutely hilarious, Foster. And dead on.

    On a similar note, whenever I have to cancel a reservation at one of NY's trendy restaurants, I always make sure I call and apologize profusely for their inconvenience. Because perish the thought I might be blacklisted by the restaurant mafioso, and never be able to get a reservation again for a birthday, anniversary or other special occasion.
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    Image of plasticene plasticene
    09/13/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    The "apology'' was priceless. I must ask, did Jesse require ketchup with his fries, or was he required to provide a sample of blood?
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    Image of karion karion
    09/12/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    Both this and the linked BB piece were fantastic, Foster.
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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    09/12/09

    @karion: Seconded
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    09/12/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    Great tag list BTW.
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    Image of heartbreakturnip heartbreakturnip
    09/12/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    Nothing like my mama's fried green plutonium flakes, though. Home cookin'!
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    09/12/09

    In reply to Media Scribe Rebuffed By Restaurateur For Being "Pushy" Over Reservations
    I'm not sure which is more pathetic: an establishment that forces customers to grovel to do business with it and thus offers the opposite of customer service, or a customer who grovels to such an obnoxious establishment. Me, I will go to Tad's Steaks.
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    Image of pollyannacowgirl pollyannacowgirl
    09/12/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Agreed.

    And as a complete nobody, I still go to restaurants to eat good food.
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    09/13/09

    @TheBusinessGuy:

    The night I went, I had to change the time of the reservation and they were perfectly obliging because they had room to maneuver.

    It's poor judgment to be rude in the first instance to people who have momentary power over you, whether they be reservationists, clerks, customer service reps, etc.
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    09/13/09

    @pollyannacowgirl:

    The food was good; it just wasn't my style -- very '40s Algonquin Grill.
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    09/13/09

    @Seeräuber Jenny: True, but is also bad judgement for these service people to be rude to you. It goes both ways.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/14/09

    In reply to Sharon Waxman Ate Breakfast At Balthazar And Lived To Tell The Tale
    This sounds like what I imagine hell to be like. People networking, namedropping and tweeting all over the place like they have uncontrollable social diarrhea.

    I'll still with the corner diner and their omelettes.
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    06/14/09

    In reply to Sharon Waxman Ate Breakfast At Balthazar And Lived To Tell The Tale
    The only reason to go to Balthazar is to eat french fries with mayo.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    06/14/09

    In reply to Sharon Waxman Ate Breakfast At Balthazar And Lived To Tell The Tale
    Are there bistros that are other than "French-style" bistros? Like, I dunno, Breakaway Former Soviet Republic-style bistros?
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    06/14/09

    @raincoaster: I LOLed.

    To the point of regurgitation.
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    06/14/09

    @raincoaster: I consider the Olive Garden to be the finest Italian bistro I know.
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    06/13/09

    In reply to Sharon Waxman Ate Breakfast At Balthazar And Lived To Tell The Tale
    I stopped reading when they used "cognoscenti" in the first sentence. My last shred of tolerance has died.


    At least it was quick. I'll miss ya, buddy.

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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    06/13/09

    In reply to Sharon Waxman Ate Breakfast At Balthazar And Lived To Tell The Tale
    As usual, the HuffPo gets the level of journalism it (doesn't) pay for.


    But congrats on Gawker's "biggest traffic month ever"!


    (If I were the editor-in-chief of a new site covering the entertainment industry, I might do the tiny bit of work it would take to corroborate that statistic rather than just accepting the head of the company's party conversation as the last word on the subject -- but as a mere commenter, I know it must be true.)

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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    06/13/09

    @TedSez: HA. So funny. Forgot about that part. Hey Nick, if you're reading this, can you verify your own quote for Waxman?
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    06/13/09

    In reply to Sharon Waxman Ate Breakfast At Balthazar And Lived To Tell The Tale
    Wasn't that a thrilling piece? My favorite part was when Sharon mentioned how Zack and AC wouldn't sit in the same booth and that Screech was drinking Kool Aid Great Bluedini out of his He-Man thermos.
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