I like the idea of slate. Marble would be interesting, but hell on the server (not to mention the budget). I worked at one hotel as a temp that had actual marble cutting boards, probably original equipment for the 100+ year old Driskill. Those fuckers were HEAVY!!!
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You’d like Gus’s Fried Chicken. Awesome fried chicken at a price that’s also awesome. And, DAMN! They have fried okra!!! Not a shill. I just like this place. It could not possibly be more homey looking.
Yes. Not a huge fan of “hot” fried chicken, but it is good.
I’d call it ‘spicy’. Not hot. But then, I’ve eaten Dave’s Insanity. I KNOW hot. Intimately.
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I’ve read about that and there seems to be (almost) a good reason for that price point. Sure, it’s kinda weird, but then I’d never want to live in D.C. so there’s that.
And you usually do actually get what you pay for at fine dining places. This shit really isn’t over-priced. I worked at an upscale Italian restaurant that was only open 4 1/2 hrs a night, 5 1/2 weekends. The man-hours that went into this ALONE were staggering. The fresh food stuffs, the ambiance, well, hell! It was a revelation to me. Their prices seemed cheap after I tried to figure of the cost. If you are young, you should work in fine dining, at any level, dish washing included. You will learn something. If you aren’t young, don’t. It WILL kill you.
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Amusingly, most French don’t ever buy glass sets*.
Instead, we buy mustard, which several brands sell in glass containers that can be used as drinking glasses afterwards.
```*` Unless it’s for a present, which is quite common.
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I (American) love them! But my French girlfriend hates them, and makes me put them in recycling, except the Nutella Christmas ones.
This used to be common in the US as well, a long time ago, but not anymore. I remember drinking out of “mustard glasses” at my grandparents’ house as a kid.
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Not to mention glasses that came with jelly and dried beef and shrimp cocktail as well.
Still can be found in thrift stores and yard sales sometimes 
edit–for correct link to shrimp cocktail glasses
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We had them in Germany too. But somehow they fell out of fashion. But I think one of our glasses used to be one.
Ah, yeah, the fantasy water glass ones with cartoon characters, right? I wasn’t speaking of those, but of the goblet-shaped ones. No one would make a fuss about using them for common wines.
I grew up on a farm. We used pitchforks instead of shovels. (Finely spaced tines of course.)
For awhile there in the 80s, there was a trend of fast food places giving away glasses decorated with whatever the latest blockbuster movie was.
I think nearly all of the juice glasses during my childhood were from Burger King and McDonalds.
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With Krylon?
I see now that @Schmorgluck is talking “goblet-shaped” glasses. That’s a level of niceness I can only aspire to 
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Yours?
You seem to be getting smugger by the post.
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There’s a great scene in the film ‘Lincoln’, where Lincoln’s lobbyists are in a restaurant, and one of them is whacking away at a crab while others there flinch to move away.
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Carving, mostly. We put a clay head on the bird and gave it a surprised expression.
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Waving your Everyman Flag calling people out for this is the New Smug.
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