This is how you trample out the real grapes of wrath.
A diner at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City got the shock of his life when he took a waitress’ suggestion for a bottle of wine that cost “thirty-seven fifty” — only to find out when the bill arrived that she meant $3,750.
Joe Lentini says the staff at the casino’s Bobby Flay’s steakhouse misled him into uncorking a pricy bottle of 2011 Screaming Eagle, a Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley.
“We were shocked,We couldn’t believe it,” the New Jersey man told NJ.com. “I don’t know much about wine at all. I asked the waitress if she could recommend something decent because I don’t have experience with wine.. . . She pointed to a bottle on the menu. I didn’t have my glasses. I asked how much and she said thirty-seven fifty.”
When the four-figure bill came, Lentini was flabbergasted.
He and his dinner partners disputed the charges, and the restaurant eventually charged him $2,200 — which is quite a markup since a bottle of the highly regarded vintage can be had online for just $1,000.
A New Jersey man and his business associates couldn’t believe their eyes last week when they got the check after a night of dinner and drinks at Bobby Flay’s steakhouse at the Borgata Hotel Casino in Atlantic City.
When a waitress there told them the bottle of wine they wanted would be “thirty-seven, fifty,” they assumed she meant $37.50.
What she meant was $3,750.
After that, Joe Lentini needed a drink.
“We were shocked,” Lentini told NJ.com. “We couldn’t believe it.”
The wine, a Screaming Eagle, Oakville 2011, turned out to be the second most expensive bottle on the menu, and was brought to the table after Lentini asked the waitress to make a suggestion.
“I don’t know much about wine at all,” Lentini said.
“I asked the waitress if she could recommend something decent because I don’t have experience with wine. She pointed to a bottle on the menu. I didn’t have my glasses. I asked how much and she said. Thirty-seven fifty.”
After the check came, they disputed the bill.
Lentini said he never would have ordered a bottle that expensive, but a Borgata spokesman said there was “no misunderstanding regarding the selection.”
The restaurant and the dinner party reached a compromise of sorts, and the guests agreed to pay $2,200 for the bottle.
Was it worth it?
“It was OK. It was good,” Lentini said of the wine. “It wasn’t great. It wasn’t terrible. It was fine.”