If last night's debut of Gordon Ramsay caught you in a rare state of unpreparedness, you should
know that the large bar area has three oversized tables, one of which is a giant communal slab—so there's
plenty of room for a spontaneous, non-reservation meal until word gets out. (Uh, oops.) Herewith, our
thorough summary of Night One, in convenient list form:
Customers at bar at 5pm sharp: 5
Giant golden lights pivoting over the bar that would be equally suitable over a dentist's chair: 2
Average price of nine specialty cocktails: about $16
Percentage sampled in the name of research: 66
Rank of the Spiced Pineapple Mojito among all contenders: 1
Highest recorded ratio of staffers to customers in the bar area: 14 to 2
Private dining rooms: 5
Items on bar menu utilizing bacon: 4
Items on dinner menu utilizing braised pig's heads: 1
Towering mullets: 1
Toweringly mulleted men who donned sunglasses to move from bar to table: 1
Lonely-looking women who appeared to have been stood up: 5
Percentage whose dates eventually showed: 100
English-accented obscenities overheard from behind the kitchen
doors: 0
Sightings of Ramsay himself: 0
Customers at bar at 5pm sharp: 5
Giant golden lights pivoting over the bar that would be equally suitable over a dentist's chair: 2
Average price of nine specialty cocktails: about $16
Percentage sampled in the name of research: 66
Rank of the Spiced Pineapple Mojito among all contenders: 1
Highest recorded ratio of staffers to customers in the bar area: 14 to 2
Private dining rooms: 5
Items on bar menu utilizing bacon: 4
Items on dinner menu utilizing braised pig's heads: 1
Towering mullets: 1
Toweringly mulleted men who donned sunglasses to move from bar to table: 1
Lonely-looking women who appeared to have been stood up: 5
Percentage whose dates eventually showed: 100
English-accented obscenities overheard from behind the kitchen
doors: 0
Sightings of Ramsay himself: 0