点评:We - a family of three - were guests of The Montage Laguna Beach for two nights in July 2024 in one of their nice appointed suites. A great hotel by the way!
We were looking forward to experience their upscale and much revered Loft gourmet restaurant, so we have reserved a table for dinner.
We were greeted and led to the table by Mrs Monet (when I’ve asked for her name she just told me one like some
music or Hollywood stars and I did ask “like the painter?” And she did say “yes” so, if the spelling is wrong is not my fault).
Imagine your worse nightmare table, equally close to the kitchen and the restroom and in the darkest corner of the restaurant (which, by the way, features a gorgeous and generous terrace facing the ocean) neighboring the unused breakfast buffet table. It was so sorry looking and so sordid that I had to tell Monet that I would never sit and have dinner at that table in a million years, especially as we have passed on our way to it a few better situated empty ones. It was literally the worse table in the restaurant. She just shrugged and told me coldly that it’s the only table she can offer at that time. As I was sure that this statement was not true, I had no other solution but give it all up and just leave.
That was our experience. I know it sounds dumb, but I swear to you, no one would have accept to be seated at that awful table. Unfortunately hosts like Monet have this unfair power to ruin one’s evening.
翻译:我们一家三口于 2024 年 7 月在 The Montage Laguna Beach 酒店入住了两晚,入住了他们布置精美的套房之一。顺便说一句,这是一家很棒的酒店!
我们期待体验他们高档且备受推崇的 Loft 美食餐厅,所以我们预订了一张晚餐桌。
莫奈夫人迎接了我们并带我们到餐桌旁(当我问她的名字时,她只是告诉我一个像音乐或好莱坞明星一样的名字,我确实问了“像画家一样?”她确实说“是的”,所以如果拼写错误不是我的错)。
想象一下你最糟糕的噩梦餐桌,同样靠近厨房和卫生间,在餐厅最黑暗的角落(顺便说一句,餐厅有一个面向大海的华丽宽敞露台),毗邻未使用的自助早餐桌。那张桌子看上去太可怜了,太肮脏了,我不得不告诉莫奈,我一百万年也不会坐在那张桌子上吃饭,尤其是我们在去那张桌子的路上经过了几个位置更好的空桌子。那张桌子简直是餐厅里最糟糕的桌子。她只是耸耸肩,冷冷地告诉我,那是她当时唯一能提供的桌子。我确信这句话不是真的,我别无选择,只能放弃一切,离开。
那是我们的经历。我知道这听起来很蠢,但我向你发誓,没有人会接受坐在那张可怕的桌子上。不幸的是,像莫奈这样的主人有这种不公平的权力来毁掉一个人的夜晚。