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Default Best bit of action you've seen in a resto

On Nov 8, 3:11*pm, aem > wrote:
> On Nov 8, 11:50 am, Kalmia > wrote:
>
> > After the resto - bashing, I feel guilty. *Maybe it's time to laud
> > something unusual you have witnessed, some bit of beyond the call
> > service. *[snip]

>
> I posted this in 1999:
> "..., I remember putting up a date at the Parker House in
> Boston as a callow youth (dates you, just to use that phrase). *At
> breakfast, the toast had its own covered silver dish. *Just as you
> thought
> you wanted a bite of toast and realized you needed another piece the
> waiter
> materialized from nowhere, lifted the lid and served it to your bread
> plate
> with silver tongs. *I recall being so impressed that I hoped such
> suavity
> would rub off on me in the eyes of my date.... " * * *-aem


Parker House? Callow youth? A well-heeled one, at least.