My favorite is when the wait staff presents my own wine to me at a BYOB restaurant. Do they really expect I'll send my own wine back? That said, maybe six months ago, we were out with friends who are wine aficionados and one of the bottles he brought was corked, so, we literally did "send it back."
Many years ago my dad's lifelong best friend invited us for Christmas dinner at a fancy place in Manhattan. He invited everyone my uncle, aunt, and all our cousins too. He rented a private dining room and said all my dad was responsible for was bringing the wine because my dad was a wine guy. Well, the guy serving our table opens my dad's wine and says the wine is bad. This didn't exactly go over well with my dad. Not only did he try and embarrass him by saying all the wine he brought is bad his solution was to throw out all that wine and have him pay for all the wine they had on the premises. If I remember correctly my dad told him to f^^^ off and we drank all my dad's wine which was perfectly fine.
Corked is the only reason to send it back. I think it's all tough on restaurants because some people will be "oh I don't like this much" and send it back. No. We see more screwcap wines now because of it. Haven't found any BYOB places here in MA. Used to really enjoy one in Saratoga, CA.
Richie finally "gets it" in season 2. I thought the final two or three episodes of season 2 were amazing because we actually got to see the characters. Season 3 is where it really went off the rails, they didn't build at all off of the end of season 2. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen to the characters and to give me some reason to care about any of them. It boringly built up to the finale where all the chefs had a self suck session talking about how important they are for the world. I'm sure I'll watch season 4 but it became a pretentious boring show about people who cook food.
During Covid, like everybody else, I did without haircuts. After a while, my hair was longer than I felt I could reasonably tolerate. Someone, I think on The Boneyard, kept telling me cut it yourself. I do my own hair. It's easy. So I gave it a shot.
Nice turn of phrase. I agree it was a little pretentious.
Same. I enjoyed season 2, even though I really just don't seem to like the high end restaurant business. Watched episode 1 of season 3 and stopped there.
I saw S3 as basically advancing character development without really advancing the story arc of the restaurant. And I was fine with that.
I’m in a similar place with food. I did my time at food as art places. I respect it, but don’t need to experience it anymore. Especially with kids in college. But I can still enjoy a great rustic meal.
Even corked can get you into a debate. I've been really into wine for a long time. (still have hundreds of bottles stored at Horse Ridge Cellars in CT, an amazing place owned by UConn grads - if anyone wants to buy any high end, well-stored wine let's talk. Transporting it to CO is a PITA) Anyway I'm really sensitive to TCA (the chemichal behind "cork taint"). I've had more than a few painful "send it back because it's corked" conversations.
Yeah, I'm sensitive to it as well and can pick it out even when some others may not notice it.
I watched the first season, but didn't love it because it went too far afield from the books. How was season two?
I started watching after reading good reviews. I wasn't able to get through the first episode yet since it is slow, but I'll watch this weekend. I'm a big fan of Bosch.
I watched 2 more eps. I'm really enjoying it so far. Bosch showed up briefly in one of the eps.
