Behold the Tale of a Successful Twenty-Person Dine-and-Dash
A birthday girl got stuck with the check and tried to make a run for it.
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Scruffy Chic: The New Rules for Dining Out
Phoebe Damrosch on why today's reformed restaurant landscape requires a whole new approach to going out.
Michael Bauer Is Plenty Familiar With What a Coked-Up Server Looks Like
For the most part, if they can still do their job, he doesn't object.
Del Frisco’s Stakes Claim to Couple With Thank-you Note
For one couple, a little lovin' goes a long way.
Willie Brown Doesn’t Always Tip
A "very well-known man-about-town" who sounds like Willie Brown neglected to tip a staffer at a "restaurant near the Ferry Building" that sounds like One Market when said staffer returned to him his fedora. "With Earth Day on the way,...
Bostonians Take to Aussie Food ... With A Little Help
Australian food is best enjoyed when following some simple guidelines.
How to Subtly Let Servers Know That You’re Kind of a Big Deal
A seasoned server explains how to showcase a splurge with grace and dignity.
Gay Men Offer the Paradigm of Post-Meal Magnanimity
The cultural anthropology of check-splitting, both gay and straight.
Memo to Cocktail Snobs: Bartenders Are Not Impressed With Your Shenanigans
If you're thinking about bringing your own homemade bitters to the bar, read on.
At Soon-to-Shutter Sensing, Mat Schaffer Experienced the 'Single Rudest Experience' of His Career
Sensing's closing, but not before providing a Herald reviewer with the worst service of his life.
How Do You Feel About Texting at the Table?
The S.F. Chronicle critic is once again griping about all the smart phones at dinner.
Hoping for the Death of Flash Websites in 2011
"#10: Useless restaurant websites. I can’t believe I have to go over the basics, but here goes: no flash intro (thanks for wasting my time for 20 seconds, can I just get the information I’m looking for?); hell, no flash...
Ruth Bourdain to Pen Etiquette Column For CHOW
The Twitter celebrity gets some almost mainstream food-world love, in the form of a bi-weekly column.
When Check-Paying Goes Awry, Who’s Responsible for Making It Right?
We're having a moral quandary about a bill snafu.
More Griping About Tipping
"America is one of the last industrialized nations in the world still desperately holding on to it."