The Tipping Point

Adventures in Fine Dining As the fine dining room slows and the remaining guests saunter out, the manager’s choice of rough-edged house music patiently waits its turn at the speakers.  Beer, the preferred wrap-up beverage of fine dining servers, performs its nightly workout of soothing staff whilst they hash out the evening’s adventures.  Tonight’s fodder: a diner who wrote “Sorry single mom” in her bill’s tip field would no doubt be a gem of a story to pass around, according to a recent post on Reddit. Leave it to the viral … Read more →

Bayesian Bottle Memoirs

Anyone can drink a glass of wine and spew words to describe it. Sometimes they publish this opinion and call themselves experts.  Worse yet, occasionally people believe them. Wine reviewing has become a convoluted world, where critics hide behind words and subjective opinions rather than speaking wine facts. Worse yet all too often wine reviews also miss sharing the soul of the wine drinking experience.  Instead they focus on why their opinion is more relevant than your perceptions and individual experience. All too often wine drinkers sop up the common wine … Read more →