HesserWatch™: Here We Go Again
In today's Times, interim restaurant critic and currently most-hated New Yorker Amanda Hesser makes fun of the waiters at Compass but accepts a free bribe of champagne from the staff anyway:
A renovation is planned, and I hope it includes the service, which vacillates between comically inept and smothering. One night, I asked the waiter if he could describe the venison entree. "It's awesome!" he said. Later, when we were having dessert, the waiter popped open a half-bottle of Bruno Paillard Champagne and began pouring.
"What did we do to deserve this?" I asked.
"It's nothing," he said. "I forgot to serve it to another table, and I didn't feel like taking it back to the bar. So here you go."
