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The day I was ‘limoncello-ed’: OPINION

(Is there a fine line between good service and service that borders on the pretentious? That’s the question asked by HOTELS blogger Guy Rigbypresident of Toronto-based F&B consulting firm Octopus)

It happened to me again. 

It was very sudden. 

I didn’t even have time to react. 

I’d just finished my gravlax. 

I was taking another sip of wine. 

And then wham! Down it went. 

“With the compliments of the chef,” she said.

As soon as I saw the ubiquitous martini glass and the festering blob of mush I knew. 

I’d been “limoncello-ed.”

I checked with my guest – how many courses did we order, eight? No – two.

I looked around.

Had Uber taken us to the Palace of Versailles by mistake?

Read on at Rigby’s blog: Confessions of a Food Warrior

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