wallstreet
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ORIGINAL: grafstrb I've been subjected to similar outrageousness ... at Bouchon in Las Vegas our server (pretending to be a sommelier) recommended a bottle of the 2004 Perrin and Fils Cotes du Rhone Villages (which I could, and had, found locally for $11) which was $55 on the list. We had already told our server we wanted a wine that would pair well with everyone's food and that we were willing to spend approximately $100. We ended up picking a Flowers Pinot Noir off the list ... the Flowers was great. I was just blown away our server tried to push the cheapie with the high markup, even after us telling him we were willing to spend $100 (i think the Flowers was about $120). The food was fantastic, by the way. It was at that meal I was introduced to Barbancourt 15yr. Rhum ... ooooh yummy! Thats rather strange. I have eaten at Bouchon in Vegas and thought it average at best! I wasn't very impressed and I was there twice. Different strokes I guess. My biggest rip off was also in Vegas, I took two clients to dinner at Cafe Martaranno at the Rio.........first, don't go, AVERAGE Italian food at best and its your garden variety kind. No where near the same quality or menu as the original in Ft Laud. Fl. All the wines were outrageous, but I was at a business dinner, I swallowed it and paid $220 for Argiano 2002 , a crap year for Brunello's and a $30 bottle for $220. Needless to say, when the waiter asked me how everything was....I paused and quietly told him that his restaurant sucked.......... The manager came over and asked if he could do anything, I say yeah, why not charge me retail for this overpriced grape juice that really sucks too....... He offered me a $50 gift card to come back. I told him to keep it, I would never come back again under any circumstance. My client ate a NY Strip with something resembling a brown sauce........price $67 !!! My other client ordered a veal parm. (why in hell would you order something like that at a supposed gourmet Italian Rest. price..... $42 My pasta dish was actually pretty good and a relative bargain at $28. When I left , I checked my ass to see if I got gang raped............. just a bad experience overall and the wine price just added to the insult. If I wasn't there on business, I would have ordered a martini or a beer. The Flowers Pinot would have been head and shoulders better...........at half the price (if it were available!). sorry for the rant, I need to get this off my chest at least once a year, I am still pissed (This happened in 2009).
< Message edited by wallstreet -- 6/21/2010 3:13:21 PM >
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