Major Muckups
Major Muckups
No one is perfect, and no one should expect perfection. But when you are eating at a fine-dining establishment, and dropping a pretty penny for the privilege, you do expect a certain level of execution. On very rare occasion, these expectations can be completely shattered, often to hilarious effect (although it can take months to see the humor in some of these episodes). Here are some of the muckups that I’ve had the misfortune of experiencing or have heard about second hand.

Nico San Francisco
Getting a reservation for a nice dinner on Thanksgiving is hard and so I book over a month in advance at Nico in San Francisco. Unfortunately at 8:15pm two nights before Thanksgiving, the restaurant realizes they are closed and calls to cancel on me. What happened? More importantly, with so few options at this point, what will I do? Did I hear that rescheduling Thanksgiving in on the table…