You Can Dress Them Up, But You Can't Take Them Out

by jordan | August 1, 2007 at 09:47 am

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Jeans and t-shirt or suit and tie, people like to get smashed and run amuck in public or semi-public places. According to the article below, bad booze-fuelled behavior is by no means the domain of students and denizens of Trees Lounge, but also of those would have the rest of us believe they were of a higher social station. In theory, people treating a high-class restaurant like a strip club sounds sort of cool (dare I say it), but, in practice, I bet it would just be... awkward at best, and decidedly uncool.

She stood facing the rest of the dining room. First she took off a vest or a jacket, as best Mr. Le Dû remembers. Then she went to work on her blouse.

Just as she was getting to her bra, the maître d’hôtel got to her. Thus her drunken, wobbly stint as a stripper ended, and so did her dinner. She and her date, a smiling, sloshed man who had seemingly egged her on, were escorted to the door.

He has his first glass of his beloved Montrachet sometime between 4 and 5 p.m.

It’s never his last.

“People are often doing things underneath the table,” said a veteran server who has worked in many of Manhattan’s premier restaurants, including Gotham Bar & Grill and Fleur de Sel. The server asked not to be named for fear of angering past or future employers.

“The darker the restaurant, the more romantic the restaurant — there’s going to be some activity,” she said.

What strikes me is that none of these patrons seem to get cut off before they do something rather antisocial... when I worked at a bar, I would never serve someone beyond the point of obvious inebriation,* and one gets the impression that the fancier eating establishments would do anything not to have the cops show up or attract negative press or even have a scene transpire out front, whereas someone getting tossed out of a downtown bar in the wee hours isn't such a rare sight.

*(If I'm the moreal compass here, we're in serious trouble indeed!)

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