Friday, July 27, 2007  What Happened to Chez Patrick?  Monsieur
Patrick was great, got famous, hired and trained chefs, opened a
second outlet, and food became mediocre. No...... come back
monsieur!!! Stop socialising and get back in the kitchen! (Not
that we don't like seeing you, but since we leave late anyway,
we can wait till service is finished to speak with you...)
Speaking of service, allow me to divert your attention to the
servers. Actually, try your best not to pay attention to the
servers when you're there. We were a party of only six and yet
they never, ever got our dishes right. Hello, ever heard of a
memory, or even some note paper? And you they not pour our wine
from tremendous heights? This isn't Indian milk tea, you don't
need to pour from afar and create an infinite number of bubbles
in my glass. I could go on. But I must remind myself that I'm
not in a western country. Servers here were not brought up under
western cultural influences. They don't think it's a problem,
for instance, that th