[Suzanne]

Have I not reported on our meal at Per Se? Shame on me.

The short version is: disappointing, taken all in all, and ESPECIALLY when you realize that lunch for three cost

















$1000.

For that much, everything should have been phenomenal. It was not. In fact, some of it was fairly awful -- artichokes with no flavor whatsoever in a vegetable ragout; filled pasta that suffered from the usual gumminess-at-the-thicker-edges one gets at places that don't know how to cook pasta.

Some of it WAS transcendant, such as a couple of foie gras preparations. I'll have to check my notes elsewhere for what else was good.