HBS Admit Celebrates At Hip, Lousy Bistro and makes it into The New Yorker–sign me up? You bet!!
HBS Round One admit goes to silly, ultra-hip overpriced restaurant to celebrate, and makes it into The New Yorker.
OK, you say, I’ll go there too, and put up w. the high prices, lously service, and cold food, just LEMME IN!!!!!
Tables for Two
Fiamma
206 Spring St. (212-653-0100)
by Nick Paumgarten March 3, 2008
The New Yorker, March 3, 2008
With its high prices, ambitious cuisine, and faltering service, Fiamma has a bewildering …air. Mishandled decadence can seem cautionary…. The knowledge that Fiamma is part of a restaurant company called B. R. Guest prompts speculation about strategy: a foursome dining there one recent not too busy night, next to a table celebrating a woman’s admittance to Harvard Business School, decided that Fiamma’ s existence must have something to do with a strong euro and the proximity of the Soho Grand hotel.
During the evening, a bartender attempted to make a Martini without vermouth. Several dishes arrived cold. … A bottle of wine showed up twenty minutes after it was ordered, well after the main course had begun to cool….Is it snotty to grumble about such things? Perhaps, but not when you’re paying two hundred bucks a head.
DUH, SNARKY, SNARKY, SNARKY, I’LL PAY, JUST LEMME IN, A PERFECT PLACE TO CELEBRATE GETTING IN TO HBS, AND A CURTAIN RAISER ABOUT WHAT YOUR HBS EXPERIENCE WILL BE LIKE: EXCLUSIVE, FUN, BUBBLY, FAMOUS, AND IN TERMS OF MEAT AND POTATOS LEARNING, A BUST—–BUT WHO CARES???????????????????????????
