Problems of the 1%, Per Se Edition

[heyabbott]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/13/dining/pete-wells-per-se-review.html?ref=dining

The lady had dropped her napkin.

More accurately, she had hurled it to the floor in a fit of disillusionment, her small protest against the slow creep of mediocrity and missed cues during a four-hour dinner at Per Se that would cost the four of us close to $3,000. Some time later, a passing server picked up the napkin without pausing to see whose lap it was missing from, neatly embodying the oblivious sleepwalking that had pushed my guest to this point.

Per Se gets 2 Stars from The Times

 

[swingline]

Perfect. Cypress Hill approves:

I don’t know what could have saved limp, dispiriting yam dumplings, but it definitely wasn’t a lukewarm matsutake mushroom bouillon as murky and appealing as bong water.