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Originally Posted by citanul
mittens,
you paid the bill, they took it, and you still hung out long enough for them to come over and start brining you glasses of wine? pretty weird, imo.
No, we ordered the pre meal drink special, then a glass of wine with the first few courses (I'm a sparkling water nit when I expect the food to be great), then there was a small fly on my date's mushroom course and so they brought us two additional glasses each with the later courses. I assumed they had just comped us the wine we didn't order, but given that we only payed $250 each I guess they took it all but like 2 glasses off the bill and just charged us for food.
I've done it both ways and I honestly prefer having little to no wine with really, really great multi-hour meals. I like being able to taste everything, and being a little drunk while sitting in the same place for 3 hours can wear on me. I get that I'm in the minority here.
Point is: you can get in and out of Alinea for $230 a person if you don't need to have the wine.