- Alinea
- What happens when babies run freely at Alinea
Did you hear about the worst people in the history of the planet? Alinea chef Grant Achatz tweeted about them on Saturday evening:
Michael Nagrant:
Now, there are some real issues here having to do with Alinea’s unique approach to being possibly the most acclaimed restaurant in America—specifically, its ticketing system. Many high-end, much-in-demand restaurants extract a credit card for reservations, but as the chef and manager of an almost equally acclaimed restaurant in Chicago admitted to me, nailing people with a several-hundred-dollar charge for not showing is not exactly a way to make customers love you and speak highly of you to others, and they rarely actually do it.
But let’s get back to the snark, which flew so fast that by the time actual reporting by actual news outlets tried to cover the story as a story, that just seemed hopelessly square and out-of-date. (As, uh, I can’t help but feel I’m demonstrating right now.) Babies. Whatever. Like the meaning of life that Monty Python finally arrived at (“Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations”), the answer is banally simple: really, be considerate and don’t take your baby to fine-dining spots, but people, try to lighten up toward parents, they’re usually doing the best they can under the circumstances of mental confusion and semideafness. Oh, and no, this wasn’t a problem invented yesterday. Sarah Brennan:
