now that's service

[moominmolly]

Went out to an incredibly long and marvelous dinner tonight. One of the earlier courses involved pluots; when the waiter first came out, he pronounced the fruit's name as ploo-OAT. Once he left, one of our party leaned over to her neighbor and said, rather quietly, "I always thought it was PLOO-aught!"

From that point forward, the waiter exclusively pronounced it "PLOO-aught". This didn't seem to be because he believed we were right, but simply because he did not wish to contradict the diners.

(Terrine of pluot!)

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[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I will also say that they had a "juice tasting", which I got instead of the wine pairings. The apricot-cardamom juice was fabulous.

And the cheese course! Oh, the cheese course.

Anyway, I thought of you several times, not least when I was telling the story of going to Dans le noir.

[veek.livejournal.com]

*dreamy sigh*