sisterhood of the unbuttoning pants - coming soon

And they say downtown is the where the wild things are! I was being all “ladies who lunch but actually cocktail” at Amaranth yesterday with a respectable member of the uptown scene and a regular diner at Amaranth. I was all dressed in my uptown boho look (think Rachel Zoe without a hat), and trying [...]

Seriously, is there any recourse or accountability for poor service?  Gratuities used to be viewed as a barometer of the service received and an extra thank you imparted to your server.  Now, if you leave a poor tip, the server just thinks that you are an asshole and uses anonymous websites to gripe about you.  [...]

The following scenario happens to us all of the time at Babbo, to the point where we just continue to subject ourselves to rejection: You sit down, you look at an extensive menu, offering delicious and tempting fare and you try to narrow down what you want to order.  Then, somewhere yonder, you see a [...]

There is nothing simple about getting your salad tossed these days.  I know that this is NYC, and especially at lunch time, people are not messing around.  That said, recent visits to places that specialize in custom salads- Chop’t, Just Salad- have left me in a state of anxiety akin to getting my shoes, sweater, [...]

I get it…a lot of servers want to be actors.  I understand that acting like you are happy to be serving spoiled brats like me day in and day out could be great preparation for a role one day, and that acting happy to be in uncomfortable shoes for 10 hours a day could be [...]

“Hello, thank you for calling X, how can I help you?” “Yes, hi, I wanted to see about making a reservation for tomorrow evening, for two people at 7:30”. “Well, we don’t have 7:30, we only have 7:20 or 7:40 available”. “Really?  There is no way you can put us in for 7:30?” “No, its [...]