Dude Gets Duped Into Ordering $3,750 Bottle Of Wine At The Borgata

NJ.com – Lots of people enjoy wine with dinner. Few enjoy seeing the bill. Joe Lentini, after a business dinner at Bobby Flay Steak at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, experienced sticker shock. Dear readers, let’s see Lentini’s experience as a cautionary tale: make sure you know what you’re ordering. Lentini said he isn’t a big drinker and he’ll maybe drink a glass of wine once a month. “I don’t know much about wine at all,” the Hazlet man said. A week ago, he and two others of his party of 10 decided to share a bottle of wine, he said. The host of the dinner — the guy who would be paying the bill — told Lentini to pick a bottle, Lentini said. “I asked the waitress if she could recommend something decent because I don’t have experience with wine,” Lentini said. “She pointed to a bottle on the menu. I didn’t have my glasses. I asked how much and she said, ‘Thirty-seven fifty.'” The drinkers at the table agreed to the price and they ordered, Lentini said. Soon, the sommelier — the wine steward — presented the corked bottle at the table. Lentini said he was having conversation with his companions and didn’t really pay attention, but he approved of the bottle. A taste of the wine was served for him to sample. He approved, he said, and the bottle was placed on the table. “It was okay. It was good,” Lentini said of the wine. “It wasn’t great. It wasn’t terrible. It was fine.” When dinner was over, the check was handed to the host, who was sitting opposite Lentini at the round table, Lentini said. “[The host] was sitting across from me and he handed the bill to person next to him, who handed it to the next person until it got to me,” he said. “I showed the gentleman next to me and we were shocked. We couldn’t believe it.” The total bill was $4,700.61, including tax. The bottle of wine, Screaming Eagle, Oakville 2011 — cost $3,750.   “I thought the wine was $37.50,” Lentini said. Lentini said he was told the best price the restaurant could offer was $2,200. Lentini said he couldn’t afford that, but to be able to leave, he and two other diners agreed to split the $2,200 bill.

Hoodwinked! Swindled! Bamboozled! I can honestly say I would burn that restaurant to the ground before I paid that bill. I would hold that entire place hostage like John fucking Q before those motherfucker saw one cent from me. What kind of asshole waitress recommends a $4,000 bottle of wine to someone who openly said “I dont know much about wine at all?” I mean if some hot shot says to you “bring me your finest bottle” and its $3.750 well then thats on him. But you really think the dude who openly says he doesnt drink wine a lot is gonna want to drop 4k on a fucking bottle?? Get lost, sweetheart.

Tough spot for that dude to be in too. Obviously you dont wanna welch on your bill. And part of you wants to be like Pres when he found out the purple starfish bathing suit was $200. Just sack up and pay the cost so you dont look like a poor person. But theres a difference between a few hundred bucks and four fucking thousand dollars. The fact that bottle of wine even exists, let alone people getting tricked into buying it, is straight up nauseating.