6. Café Boulud

I made reservations for this restaurant about a month ahead. I was told only a 9:30 reservation was available. We arrived on time and were escorted by a frosty hostess to our table in what I can only term a bland and monochromatic room that reminded me of the staid and uptight private country clubs in Washington DC I am forced to go to for business. This was meant to be aromantic evening. After a good twenty minutes our drink orders were taken and we had by then decided on our choices. A half and hour later the waiter returned saying that unfortunately they were out of both of our choices. The restaurant was already emptying and yet it seemed an eon before the food arrived, tepid, BLAND and tasteless in general. It hurts to splurge on a reknown name and place, only to leave feeling taken and conned and treated like a bloody interloper instead of a guest. Never again.