Wolfpack:
I can't say for sure on the security bullshit, but I hear the food is only OK.
If you want a great meal - go to Drai's! I take guests there regularly, everyone enjoys it - and there is no "shakedown" at the door.
Now, for my strat story... My younger brother and his wife took us there for dinner recently. The shakedown "caught" his deadly spyderco - which he surrendered in the interests of decoum. They issued him a claimcheck (better than just tossing all of us out) and we carried on with dinner.
Upon returning downstairs, my brother went to recover his property. After the security doofus returned his spyderco, he slipped the wicked looking steak knife from the dinner table out of his coatsleeve - and told the guard he could have his knife back now too.
Needless to say, the guard was upset. Jimmy's answer was "good thing I was not hijacking a resturant to Cuba eh?"
The guard sputtered as we walked away, but no action was taken.
Lem
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